The miniaturization of deep space telecommunications systems

摘要

As part of NASA's Discovery program, which focuses on exploring the solar system with inexpensive scientific spacecraft, the Near earth Asteroid Rendezovous (NEAR) was launched on February 17, 1996. It will rendezvous with the asteroid Eros in early 1999. With NEAR, The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) continued its tradition of building small spacecraft and demonstrated that new technolgoies can be included in a cost-capped program.