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... hours GMT July 3 injected the spacecraft into an earth-escape trajectory. Giotto , named for the 14th-century artist Giotto de Bondone, who in 1301 witnessed what probably was Halley’s Comet ... billions of high-speed dust particles pouring off the comet's nucleus. Before its destruction, Giotto would perform approximately 10 experiments examining the image, chemistry, magnetism, and other aspects of the ...

... command of the European Space Operations Centre in Darmstadt, Germany. Ground-based telescopes would track Giotto , and course corrections would be made with the on-board propulsion system to ensure that ... data from the mission would come from 10 scientific experiments on board Giotto within a few minutes before and after Giotto 's closest approach to the comet's nucleus. It would be ...

... by scientists as an outstanding success. 206 - THE SECOND COMING OF GIOTTO - PART 1: ENCOUNTER WITH HALLEY As the European Giotto probe approaches the comet Grigg-Skjellerup, Darren Burnham looks back to ... Cosmodrome. 298 - Book Notices. 302 - ASTRONOMICAL NOTEBOOK A round-up of astronomy news, including the Giotto encounter with Comet Grigg Skjellerup and Space Probe Diary. 304 - SOCIETY NEWS One of the ...

... approved a major space first: sending a spacecraft to Halley’s Comet . The mission, called Giotto , would send a spacecraft derived from the Goes design through the comet in 1986 at ... . The payload would consist mainly of the camera and spectrometers for measuring atomic composition. The Giotto mission was named for the "Adoration of the Magi" scene in a fresco in Padua's Arena Chapel done by Florentine artist Giotto di Bondone. The sky in the Adoration scene shows Halley’s Comet , which made one ...

... more than 30 U.S. scientists serving as coinvestigators on the European Space Agency 's Giotto mission were members of the television team scheduled to analyze and televise images of Halley’s Comet from the spacecraft on March 13. Launched in July 1985, the Giotto was one of five spacecraft (others were the Soviet Union's Vega 1 and 2 ... an encounter with the comet. In position 300 miles from Comet Halley's nucleus, the Giotto promised to obtain the highest resolution imaging. (NASA Release 86-23) Rear Admiral Richard H ...

... on Earth. (Av Wk, Aug 10/92) European Space Agency mission controllers doubted that the Giotto space-craft would be able to perform a flyby of a third comet. Scientists were enthusiastic about Giotto 's encounter with Comet Grigg-Skjellerup on July 10, a follow up on its original ... . But low fuel supply and out-of-date communication systems probably signaled the end of Giotto 's usefulness. (Av Wk, Aug 10/92) A U.S.-French satellite roared into orbit ...

... 1988''' - J. T. GARNER M. JONES DEVELOPING SATELLITE PRE-LAUNCH OPERATIONS 241 - R.J. FLOWER GIOTTO SPACECRAFT HEALTH ASSESSMENT 247 - A. W SWALES HEAVY LIFT HORIZONTAL TAKE-OFF AND LANDING VEHICLES ... SIMULATION 393 - D. C. HILL LASER SIMULATION OF HYPERVELOCITY MICROMETEOROID IMPACTS 397 - J.C. ZARNECKI GIOTTO DUST IMPACT DETECTION SYSTEM: INSTRUMENT AND IN-FLIGHT PERFORMANCE 403 - G.S. PANKIEWICZ C.H ...

... 1993''' - JOURNEY TO GRIGG-SKJELLERUP Darren Burnham describes the second cometary flyby by the spacecraft Giotto and compares key parameters with those of its Halley flyby in March 1986. 110 - HEALTH CHECK ON GIOTTO Richard Flower looks at the current operational status of the Giotto spacecraft and concludes that a further follow-on mission is ...

... and infighting in the science community" In the meantime, the European Space Agency 's spacecraft Giotto , the Soviet Union's twin Vega spacecraft, and two Japanese spacecraft would each probe Halley ... Space Network to reach the comet. The most sophisticated mission would be by the spacecraft Giotto . After a 60,000 mile voyage through Halley's "dusty tail," it would pass "with ...

... ; W Post, Jul 10/92; W Times, Jul 10/92) The European Space Agency 's Giotto space probe, which six years ago flew within 335 miles of Comet Halley, flew past ... probe's cameras were too badly damaged from the Halley fly-by to be used, Giotto 's other instruments measured magnetic fields, dust impacts, electrically charged gases, and the chemical makeup ...

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