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During the 1970s there was mounting interest in the coming apparition in 1986 of the famous Comet Halley. The US was developing various plans for intercepting the comet at close range. The fledgling European Space Agency was considering doing the same. And the very small and academically oriented Japanese Institute for Space and Astronautical Science had decided to send two small spacecraft equipped with plasma instrumentation.
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Huntress, W.T., Marov, M.Y. (2011). The International Comet Halley campaign. In: Soviet Robots in the Solar System. Springer Praxis Books(), vol 1. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-7898-1_18
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