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NEAR Shoemaker at Eros: Mission Director’s
Introduction
R. W. Farquhar
Near Earth Asteroid Rendezvous: The
Science of Discovery
D. L. Domingue and A. F. Cheng
NEAR Mission Design
D. W. Dunham, J. V. McAdams,and R. W. Farquhar
Technical Challenges and Results
for Navigation of NEAR Shoemaker
B. G. Williams
Making NEAR Work: Cooperative Modeling
and Simulation with an Advanced Guidance and Control System
G. A. Heyler and A. P. Harch
NEAR Shoemaker Spacecraft Mission
Operations
M. E. Holdridge
NEAR Spacecraft Flight System Performance
A. G. Santo
APL Awards
L. L. Maier-Tyler
John R. Apel: Obituary
D. J. Williams and R. F. Gasparovic
John R. Apel: An Appreciation
K. Moorjani
Publications, Presentations, Colloquia, and Patents
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The Cover: The Near Earth Asteroid Rendezvous (NEAR) mission was developed and operated for NASA by APL. It was the first mission in the agency’s Discovery Program of low-cost planetary missions. NEAR (later known as NEAR Shoemaker) was launched from the Kennedy Space Center on 17 February 1996. Delta-2 rocket #232 provided the near-perfect launch that sent the spacecraft on its way toward a rendezvous with asteroid 433 Eros. NEAR Shoemaker landed on the surface of Eros on 12 February 2001. (Rendering of NEAR spacecraft on Eros, © Don Davis, also appeared on the cover of The Planetary Report, Sep–Oct 2001; cover design by Kenneth R. Moscati.) |
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