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Galileo Probe, Monish Ranjan Chatterjee
Galileo Probe, Monish Ranjan Chatterjee
Electrical and Computer Engineering Faculty Publications
The Galileo mission to Jupiter was formally approved by the United States Congress in 1977, several years before the space shuttle Columbia made its maiden flight into Earth orbit. The mission was a cooperative project involving scientists and engineers from the United States, Germany, Canada, Great Britain, France, Sweden, Spain, and Australia. Even though the Voyager 1 and Voyager 2 spacecraft had performed flybys of planet Jupiter and its sixteen moons in 1979, the Galileo mission was envisioned to initiate several novel observations of Jupiter, the most massive gas planet of the solar system, and its principal moons, and conduct …
Neil Armstrong, Monish Ranjan Chatterjee
Neil Armstrong, Monish Ranjan Chatterjee
Electrical and Computer Engineering Faculty Publications
In addition to his outstanding and pioneering contributions to the National Aeronautics and Space Administration’s (NASA) crewed spaceflight program, Armstrong served with distinction as a professor of aerospace engineering, chairman and director of several corporations, and member of presidential commissions.