| Mars Pathfinder entry, descent, and landing reconstruction DA Spencer, RC Blanchard, RD Braun, PH Kallemeyn, SW Thurman Journal of spacecraft and rockets 36 (3), 357-366, 1999 | 197 | 1999 |
| Overview of the Mars Pathfinder Mission: Launch through landing, surface operations, data sets, and science results MP Golombek, RC Anderson, JR Barnes, JF Bell III, NT Bridges, DT Britt, ... Journal of Geophysical Research: Planets 104 (E4), 8523-8553, 1999 | 168 | 1999 |
| 2001 Mars Odyssey mission summary RS Saunders, RE Arvidson, GD Badhwar, WV Boynton, PR Christensen, ... Space Science Reviews 110, 1-36, 2004 | 138 | 2004 |
| Design of the ARES Mars airplane and mission architecture RD Braun, HS Wright, MA Croom, JS Levine, DA Spencer Journal of Spacecraft and Rockets 43 (5), 1026-1034, 2006 | 134 | 2006 |
| The LightSail 2 solar sailing technology demonstration DA Spencer, B Betts, JM Bellardo, A Diaz, B Plante, JR Mansell Advances in Space Research 67 (9), 2878-2889, 2021 | 107 | 2021 |
| Solar sailing technology challenges DA Spencer, L Johnson, AC Long Aerospace Science and Technology 93, 105276, 2019 | 96 | 2019 |
| Mars Exploration Program 2007 Phoenix landing site selection and characteristics R Arvidson, D Adams, G Bonfiglio, P Christensen, S Cull, M Golombek, ... Journal of Geophysical Research: Planets 113 (E3), 2008 | 92 | 2008 |
| Mars Pathfinder atmospheric entry-Trajectory design and dispersion analysis DA Spencer, RD Braun Journal of Spacecraft and Rockets 33 (5), 670-676, 1996 | 86 | 1996 |
| Relative orbital elements formulation based upon the Clohessy-Wiltshire equations TA Lovell, DA Spencer The Journal of the Astronautical Sciences 61, 341-366, 2014 | 58 | 2014 |
| Testing the lightsail program: Advancing solar sailing technology using a cubesat platform RW Ridenoure, R Munakata, SD Wong, A Diaz, DA Spencer, DA Stetson, ... Journal of Small Satellites 5 (2), 531-550, 2016 | 56 | 2016 |
| Aerobraking cost and risk decisions DA Spencer, R Tolson Journal of Spacecraft and Rockets 44 (6), 1285-1293, 2007 | 53 | 2007 |
| LightSail program status: one down, one to go R Ridenoure, R Munakata, A Diaz, S Wong, B Plante, D Stetson, ... | 44 | 2015 |
| Lightsail 1 mission results and public outreach strategies B Betts, B Nye, J Vaughn, E Greeson, R Chute, DA Spencer, ... 4th International Symposium on Solar Sailing, 2017 | 39 | 2017 |
| Lightsail 2: Controlled solar sailing using a CubeSat B Betts, DA Spencer, B Nye, R Munakata, JM Bellardo, SD Wong, A Diaz, ... The 4th International Symposium on Solar Sailing. Kyoto Research Park, Kyoto …, 2017 | 35 | 2017 |
| Investigation of direct force control for aerocapture at Neptune RG Deshmukh, DA Spencer, S Dutta Acta Astronautica 175, 375-386, 2020 | 34 | 2020 |
| Development of an integrated spacecraft guidance, navigation, & control subsystem for automated proximity operations PZ Schulte, DA Spencer Acta Astronautica 118, 168-186, 2016 | 34 | 2016 |
| Mars pathfinder atmospheric entry reconstruction DA Spencer, RC Blanchard, SW Thurman, RD Braun, CY Peng, ... NASA Technical Report, AAS 98, 1998 | 34 | 1998 |
| The Mars airplane: A credible science platform RD Braun, HS Wright, MA Croom, JS Levine, DA Spencer 2004 IEEE Aerospace Conference Proceedings (IEEE Cat. No. 04TH8720) 1, 2004 | 31 | 2004 |
| Aerocapture as an enhancing option for ice giants missions S Dutta, G Afonso, SW Albert, HK Ali, GA Allen, AI Alunni, JO Arnold, ... | 29 | 2020 |
| Landing-site dispersion analysis and statistical assessment for the Mars Phoenix lander EP Bonfiglio, D Adams, L Craig, DA Spencer, R Arvidson, T Heet Journal of Spacecraft and Rockets 48 (5), 784-797, 2011 | 29 | 2011 |
Philip ChristensenArizona State UniversityVerified email at asu.edu
