Instrument Host Information
IDENTIFIER urn:nasa:pds:context:instrument_host:spacecraft.near::1.2
NAME NEAR EARTH ASTEROID RENDEZVOUS
TYPE Spacecraft
DESCRIPTION 
The NEAR spacecraft, renamed NEAR Shoemaker, was a solar-powered, three-axis-stabilized 
 spacecraft and was the first spacecraft to fly by, orbit, and land on a small body.
 NEAR carried six scientific instruments:  Multispectral Imager (MSI), Near-Infrared 
 Spectrograph (NIS), X-Ray Spectrometer (XRS), Gamma-Ray Spectrometer (GRS), NEAR Laser 
 Rangefinder (NLR), Magnetometer (MAG), plus the Radio Science Subsystem (RSS).
NAIF INSTRUMENT IDENTIFIER -93
SERIAL NUMBER
REFERENCES Santo, A.G., S.C. Lee, and R.E. Gold, NEAR Spacecraft and Instrumentation, The Journal of the Astronautical Sciences, Vol. 43, No. 4, pp. 373-397, October-December 1995.