Lessons Learned from the Clementine Mission (1997) / Chapter Skim
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Because of Clementine's many similarities to NASA's current drive to carry out space missions that are "smaller, cheaper, and faster," this document describes some of the mission's operational features that differ from traditional NASA practice and that might be profitably brought into scientific spaceflights. This report first presents a preliminary assessment of Clementine's scientific return to date.
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The stringent budget and the firm limitations on reserves guaranteed that the mission would be relatively inexpensive, but surely reduced the mission's capability, may have made it less cost-effective, and perhaps ultimately led to the loss of the spacecraft before the completion of the asteroid flyby component of the mission. For the most part, within its constrained lunar science objectives, Clementine was successful.
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