Citation
Abstract
Project Helios, named after the ancient Greek Goddess of the Sun, is a joint space venture being undertaken by the Federal Republic of West Germany and the United States of America. Two unmanned scientific satellites will be placed into heliocentric orbits: the first during mid-1974, and the second in late 1975. The history of this Project, its mission objectives, and a general description of the spacecraft were given in previous articles. This article initiates a more detailed description of the spacecraft’s radio subsystem in order that the reader may more thoroughly understand the interrelationships between spacecraft design and the planned capabilities of the Deep Space Network (DSN). Specifically, this article provides a functional description of the Helios Telemetry System.
Details
- Volume
- IV
- Published
- August 15, 1971
- Pages
- 22–31
- File Size
- 1.0 MB