Charley Kohlhase’s Solar System
The images that awed Voyager’s mission designer.
- By Paul Hoversten
- AirSpaceMag.com, January 24, 2013
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“I will never forget this beautiful Voyager 1 image of Saturn taken four hours after closest approach on November 12, 1980. I was sad that we would be leaving this great ringed world to escape from the solar system, but also hopeful that Voyager 2 would continue to dazzle us when it flew past this majestic gas giant of moons and rings just over nine months later. As Voyager 1 had successfully captured the Titan flyby objectives, this freed Voyager 2 to choose a target point at Saturn that would sling-shot it on to Uranus as part of its Grand Tour, but we mission designers already had great plans in mind for its sequence of observations within the Saturn kingdom.”
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Comments (2)
Thank you for such a fascinating article. You were able to convey the passion and dedication Charley Kohlhase gave to accomplishing two of human kind's greatest discovery missions.
Having the images be selected by a man who is both artist and great navigator to the outer planets made for an insightful and beautiful aesthetic experience.
I hope there will be yet another article on his thoughts and achievements as the mission design manager for Cassini, which is flawlessly exploring Saturn. It is extraordinary that the same man is key in navigating another flawless mission. He truly deserved NASA's Distinguished Service Metal!
Posted by Linda Malm on January 27,2013 | 12:32 AM
A reminder of how wonderful the photos are from the amazing work done by NASA and their spacecraft. As a nation we need to reenergise and return to the space age.
Posted by Olaf Ohman on February 22,2013 | 02:17 PM