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David C. Jefferson
Researcher at California Institute of Technology
Publications - 28
Citations - 3348
David C. Jefferson is an academic researcher from California Institute of Technology. The author has contributed to research in topics: Mars Exploration Program & Global Positioning System. The author has an hindex of 8, co-authored 28 publications receiving 2918 citations. Previous affiliations of David C. Jefferson include Jet Propulsion Laboratory.
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Navigation of the EPOXI Spacecraft to Comet Hartley 2
Shyam Bhaskaran,Matt Abrahamson,Steven R. Chesley,Min-Kun Chung,Allen Halsell,Robert J. Haw,Cliff Helfrich,David C. Jefferson,Brian Kennedy,Tim McElrath,William M. Owen,Brian Rush,Jonathon Smith,Tseng-Chan Wang,Chen-Wan Yen +14 more
TL;DR: The EPOXI spacecraft flew by the comet Hartley 2 on November 4, 2010, marking the fourth time that a NASA spacecraft successfully captured high resolution images of a cometary nucleus.
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Mars Global Surveyor and Mars Odyssey - Relay Satellites for the Mars Exploration Rover Mission
P. B. Esposito,Ramachand S. Bhat,Stuart Demcak,Shadan Ardalan,Jacob Breeden,Cliff Helfrich,David C. Jefferson,Jason Stauch +7 more
50,000 labs around Mars: navigating the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter through the extended missions (January 2009 - March 2017)
Premkumar R. Menon,Sean V. Wagner,Stuart Demcak,David C. Jefferson,Eric Graat,Kyong J. Lee,William B. Schulze +6 more
TL;DR: The authors highlights the navigation of the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) from January 2009 through March 2017, covering the Extended Science Phase, the first three extended missions, and a portion of the fourth extended mission.
The Earth Viewed as a Deforming Polyhedron: Method and Results
TL;DR: The main focus of as discussed by the authors is to view the Earth as an evolving polyhedron, whose vertices are defined by the GPS sites, whose motion of sites before, during, and after a large earthquake is analyzed.
2018 Mars Insight Trajectory Reconstruction and Performance from Launch Through Landing
Fernando Abilleira,Allen Halsell,Gerard Kruizinga,Eugene Bonfiglio,Robert Grover,Min-Kun Chung,Ken Fujii,Eric K. Gustafson,Yungsun Hahn,David C. Jefferson,Eunice Lau,Julim Lee,Sarah-Elizabeth McCandless,Neil Mottinger,Jill Seubert,Evgeniy Sklyanskiy,Mark Wallace +16 more
TL;DR: The InSight mission successfully launched to Mars on an Atlas V 401 launch vehicle from the Western Test Range (WTR) at Vandenberg Air Force Base (VAFB) at 04:05:00 PDT on May 5th, 2018 and landed in the Elysium Planitia Region on November 26th 2018.