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Mission Characteristics

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ACS Without an Attitude

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Our final chapter is largely a tabular listing (see Tables 12.1, 12.2, 12.3, 12.4, 12.5, 12.6, 12.7 and 12.8 at the end of the chapter) of the characteristics of four mission types, namely celestial-pointers, Earth-pointers, “fixed”-pointers, and survey missions.

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  1. Bowie, MD, USA

    Harold L. Hallock

  2. Software Engineering Division, Goddard Space Flight Center, NASA, Greenbelt, MD, USA

    Gary Welter & David G. Simpson

  3. Applied Physics Laboratory, Johns Hopkins University, Laurel, MD, USA

    Christopher Rouff

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Hallock, H.L., Welter, G., Simpson, D.G., Rouff, C. (2017). Mission Characteristics. In: ACS Without an Attitude. NASA Monographs in Systems and Software Engineering. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4471-7325-0_12

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