dspse was why clementine the sdio has contracted with the nrl naval research laboratory to fly the clementine mission btw we call it dspse deep space project science experiment the nrl is building the spacecraft designing the detailed mission and doing the integration and operations with help from jpl goddard prob some folks i have left out don t be mad i am on the tamp trajectory analysis mission planning team and am responsable for the iv v of the traj that goddard csc are designing as for why sdio is doing it some of the reasons are the safety constraints are too tight to try to run the lidar in leo in leo we don t get any new radiation data on the sensors we will get that data on our passages through the van allen sp belts since we are going out there why not piggy back some general science the intercept problem is a lot easied over long distances and long times i am sure there are some things i have forgotten and some i haven t been told but those are the reasons we all talk about jim blackshear jib bonnie jsc nasa gov
