Saturday, January 1, 1994

Giotto

 1985-056A


Giotto was based on the Geos bus and built by the same BAe/STAR consortium. The probe was built from the Geos engineering model. ESA controlled Giotto from ESOC. Flyby velocity was 68.4 km/s with 596 km closest approach.


Giotto 
 

DateTimeEventOrbit  

1985 Jul 2  1123:13  Launch by Ariane I  CSG 
  T+2:25 St 1 MECO 
  T+2:30 Stage 2 burn 
  T+4:14 Fairing 
  T+4:51? St 2 sep 
  T+4:55? Stage 3 burn 9:21?  
 1137 T+14:16? Stage 3 MECO 
 1138?  Stage 3 sep 203 x 35421 x 7.0 
 1139  Perigee 
 1145  AOS by Malindi 
 1650  Spin axis slew 
1985 Jul 2  1700?  Apogee 1  
1985 Jul 2  2110  Perigee 1, 202 km  
 2210  Perigee 1 from TLE 
1985 Jul 3  0230?  Apogee 2 
 0844  Perigee 2 from TLE 
 1400?  Apogee 2 
  Spinup 
 1914  Perigee 3 from TLE 2 
 1918  Perigee 3 from TLE 1 
 1923:47  Mage 1S perigee burn 1.40km/s Solar orbit 

 

1924:42  Burnout (55s) 
1985 Jul 4  0333? Pass EL1:4 
1985 Jul 4  0730  Nozzle cover closed 
1985 Jul 6  0947  HGA release 
  Begin cruise, mass 578.5 kg 
1985 Jul 8  0230?  Pass L1 
1985 Jul 15   3.43Mkm range 
1985 Aug 26   TCM-1, 7.27m/s, 92 min 
1985 Oct 2   Range 20.235Mkm to Earth 
1986 Jan 24   Antenna lock loss, recovered by DSN 
1986 Mar 12  0053  TCM 2.5m/s 
 0125  TCM complete 
1986 Mar 13  1816  (ERT) PKS gets signal 
1986 Mar 13   Encounter P/Halley at 0.90AU, vrel 68.4 km/s 
  Mass 573.9 kg 
 2356:58  First bumper shield penetration 
1986 Mar 14  0002:52  Last image 
 0002:52  Hit by 1g of particles 
 0002:55  Loss of signal 
1986 Mar 14  0003:02  Passed 596 km from nucleus 
 0003:19  Signal recovered 
 0004:34  Spacecraft nutating 
 0034:58  Spacecraft recovered 
1986 Mar 19   TCM 4h30m, 63 m/s, 19 kg 
1986 Mar 20   TCM 4:10min, 46m/s, 14 kg 
1986 Mar 21   TCM 16min, 2.6m/s, 1 kg  0.833 yr 0.733 x 1.04 AU 
1986 Apr 1   TCM 1.5m/s  
1986 Apr 2   TCM 1.3m/s? 
1986 Apr 2  0225  Deactivated 
1990 Feb 20   Reactivated by DSN/Madrid, R=102.9 Mkm Rdot=14.54km/s Vsun=37.36km/s 
1990 Feb 21   HGA despin attempts 
1990 Feb 25  1745 ESOC resumes control 
  HMC and NMS deactivates 
1990 Mar 3   Perihelion 
1990 Mar 13   TCM to retarget for Grigg-Skjellerup 
1990 Jul 2  1001:18  Flyby Earth, 22730 km over Australia  390d? 
  Inc = 45 deg 
1990 Jul 16   TCM 0.5m/s 
1990 Jul 22   Hibernation mode 
1992 Apr   Reactivated 
1992 May 22   TCM, 3.5m/s targeting to 800 km 
1992 Jul 1   Science instruments on 
1992 Jul 8   TCM, 2m/s targeting to 200 km 
1992 Jul 10  1519  Encounter P/Grigg-Skjellerup 200 km, at 1.01 AU from Sun LT=24min 
  Rel 13.99 km/s 
1992 Jul 11   Experiments off 
1992 Jul 21   TCM, target to Earth swingby, 4h burn 33m/s 
1992 Jul 23   TCM correction 3m/s 
1992 Jul 23   In hibernation mode 

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