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The ESA Huygens probe is due for launch as part of the NASA/ESA Cassini mission in 1997, to arrive at Titan in late 2004, and will make a 2-2.5 h exploratory descent to the surface. Huygens is designed to enter and brake in Titan's atmosphere in order to parachute a fully-instrumented robotic laboratory. The main scientific measurements will take place during that parachute descent, but some will...
Within severely constrained financial budget, mass and energy allocations as well as reliability needs, the Huygens Probe to Saturn's satellite Titan raised the need to design, develop and validate many new subsystems.Among them are very high-temperature-protection materials and a shell/kernel operative concept that allows to eliminate all ablated contaminants immediately after entry, space and gaseous...
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