NASA-TM-8487719830007055 National Space Science Data Center/ 82-21 World Data Center A For Rockets and Satellites DATA CATALOG ERIE FOR PACE CIENCE AND APPLICATIO FIGHT MI ION Volume lA De criptio of Planetary and Heliocentric pacecraft and Inve tigation September 1982 lIB~ARY COpy !\ CJV 19 1982 LANGLEY RESEARCH CENTER LIBRARY, NASA H fy1 ~TONJ VIRGINIA Categories of Spacecraft Used in This Series PLANETARY AND HELIOCENTRIC This category includes probe to the various planets of the solar system and probes designed to make measurements of the characteristics of interplanetary space. Included are also the probes which will pass out of the solar system into interstellar space. METEOROLOGY AND TERRESTRIAL APPLICATIONS This category includes geocentric spacecraft whose primary mission is to make remote sensing measurements of the earth and its atmosphere. Spacecraft which carry instrumentation to make geodesy and gravimetry measurements are also included. Technology, engineering, and communi­ cations spacecraft or investigations are not included because NSSDC does not archive such data. ASTRONOMY, ASTROPHYSICS, AND SOLAR PHYSICS This category consists of scientific satellites designed to conduct investigations of the sun, stellar objects, nonstellar sources, and interstellar phenomena. These satellites are geocentric except for the selenocentric RAE-B. GEOSTATIONARY AND HIGH-ALTITUDE SCIENTIFIC This category includes those satellites designed to conduct investigations of the characteristics of near-earth space from orbits with apogees near geostationary altitude and higher. Three of the spacecraft are seleno­ centric. Communications satellites are not included because NSSDC does not archive such data. LOW- AND MEDIUM-ALTITUDE SCIENTIFIC This category includes those spacecraft whose apogees are well below geostationary altitude and whose primary purpose is to conduct investigations in the near-earth environment. NSSDC/WDC-A-R&S 82-21 DATA CATALOG SERIES FOR SPACE SCIENCE AND APPLICATIONS FLIGHT MISSIONS Volume 1A DESCRIPTIONS OF PLANETARY AND HELIOCENTRIC SPACECRAFT AND INVESTIGATIONS Edited By Winifred Sawtell Cameron Robert W. Vostreys September 1982 National Space Science Data Center (NSSDC)/ World Data Center A for Rockets and Satellites (WDC-A-R&S) National Aeronautics and Space Administration Goddard Space Flight Center Greenbelt, Maryland 20771 tJ ~ 3- / 5' 3.;1 <a=ii:- PREFACE This volume, Brief Descriptions of Planetary and Heliocentric Spacecraft and Investigations, part of the Data Catalog Series for Space Science and Applications Flight ltissions, represents the work of many people. The series will describe the data sets held by NSSDC, some of the data sets held by NASA-funded investigators, and some of the data sets held by foreign investigators; and the series will serve as pointer documents for extensive data sets held and serviced by other government agencies. We would like to thank the many spacecraft and experiment personnel who over the years provided much of the information contained in this volume. The cooperation of the investigators in supplying current status information is gratefully acknowledged. Thanks also are extended to the other NSSDC personnel, employees of the on-site contractor, MIA-COM Sigma Data, Inc., who have been involved in the information handling necessary to produce this volume. Special acknowledgment is given to Mary Elsen for her extensive editorial assistance and to the File Management group, supervised by Dorothy Rosenblatt, for their special computer processing to accommodate the format of this volume. The Data Center is continually striving to increase the usefulness of its data holdings, supporting indexes, and documentation. Scientists are invited to submit their space science data and comments to NSSDC. Catalog recipients are urged to inform potential data users of its availability. Winifred Sawtell Cameron Robert W. Vostreys iii TABLE OF CONTENTS PREFACE ............................................................... iii INTRODUCTION .......................................................... 3 1 • 1 Purpose ..••...........•.......•..... ................. 3 1 • 2 Organization •...•................. ................. 5 1.3 NSSDC Purpose, Facilities and Services 7 1.4 Data Acquisition••.••.••••••.•••••••••••. 8 MERCURY ............................................................... 13 VENUS ................................................................. 21 MARS .................................................................. 41 JUPITER ••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• 61 SATURN ................................................................ 77 INTERPLANETARY INVESTIGATIONS BY PLANETARY PROBES ..................... 87 INTERPLANETARY INVESTIGATIONS ......................................... 97 TABLES Table 1. Status of Data Available from Planetary and Interplanetary Missions ••••••••.•••••..•••••••••••••••• 9 Table 2. Planetary Missions, by Category of Data Available at NSSDC ............................................... 11 Table 3. U.S. Lunar Mission Data . 115 APPENDIXES A. Index to Planetary Investigations with Data Available at NSSDC ...•................•.....••••. A-1 B. Index to Interplanetary Investigations (From Planetary Missions) with Data Available at NSSDC ••••••••••••••••••••• B-1 C. Index to Interplanetary Missions with Data Available at NSSDC ................................................... C-1 D. Definitions . D-1 v Introduction 1.1 PURPOSE The National Space Science Data Center (NSSDC) was established by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to provide data and information from space science and applications flight investigations in support of additional studies beyond those performed as the principal part of any flight mission. This volume is one of a series of eleven that will describe (1) the holdings of all spacecraft flight investigations for which NSSDC possesses data or can direct people to the data source, (2) all data sets held by NSSDC, (3) some of the data sets held and serviced by NASA-funded investigators, and (4) some of the data sets held and serviced by foreign investigators; and the series will serve as pointer documents for extensive data sets held and serviced by other government agencies, particularly the National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). There is one major omission from this series: the extensive set of data obtained from the lunar missions conducted by NASA, supplemented by a few small photographic data sets from Soviet missions. These are described in the Catalog of Lunar Mission Data (NSSDC/WDC-A-R&S 77-02) and will not be repeated in this series, except for a few cases. The data from IMP-E, Apollo 15 subsatellite, and Apollo 16 subsatellite are included in the series, since these data are important to disciplines other than those connected with lunar studies. Some of the experiments of the Apollo ALSEP missions also yielded useful data for magnetospheric and interplanetary physics, but these are not included in the series, since the instruments were confined to the surface of the moon. Readers should consult the Catalog of Lunar Mission Data if they are interested in such data sets. The series consists of (1) five volumes that describe the spacecraft and their associated investigations (experiments) separated, mainly, into various orbit categories, (2) five corresponding volumes that describe the various orbital information and investigation data sets, and (3) a master index volume. In some cases certain data sets appear in more than one data set volume, since they are important to a discipline not normally related to most of the investigations on a given spacecraft. The five categories of spacecraft are (i) Planetary and Heliocentric, which include planetary flybys and probes, (ii) Meteorology and Terrestrial Applications, (iii) Astronomy, Astrophysics, and Solar Physics, which are all geocentric except the selenocentric RAE-B, (iv) Geostationary and High-Altitude Scientific, and (v) Low- and Medium-Altitude Scientific. It is impossible to provide an organization of categories that separates the investigations cleanly into scientific disciplines, since many missions were multidisciplinary. Each volume is organized in a way that is believed to be most useful to the user and is described for each such volume in the Organization Section. For standard types of orbital information, i.e., predicted, refined, and definitive, the information is given in a tabular form to avoid repeating the same brief description an inordinate number of times. The standard description of a data set from an investigation is a free text brief description, since the wide variety of instruments precludes using a tabular format in most cases. 3 This catalog series has been prepared following a two-year survey and follow-up activity by NSSDC personnel to obtain information about the completeness of the NSSDC holdings and to solicit the description of data sets that will be serviced by individual investigators; these latter data sets are referred to as directory data sets. This survey was conducted only for NASA missions launched after December 31, 1962, but it includes the majority of NSSDC holdings. Unfortunately, of the 100 investigators surveyed, representing 346 inactive (no longer associated with an active science working team or equivalent) experiments, a small percentage failed to respond in 17 months of concerted solicitation of information. Consequently, there are now