Real-Time Navigation for Mars Missions Using the Mars Network
| Autor: | P. Daniel Burkhart, E. Glenn Lightsey, Andreas Mogensen, Courtney Duncan, Todd A. Ely |
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| Rok vydání: | 2008 |
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Computer science Real-time computing Aerospace Engineering Navigation system Mars Exploration Program NASA Deep Space Network Exploration of Mars law.invention Orbiter ComputingMethodologies_PATTERNRECOGNITION Space and Planetary Science law Inertial measurement unit Software design Remote sensing |
| Zdroj: | Journal of Spacecraft and Rockets. 45:519-533 |
| ISSN: | 1533-6794 0022-4650 |
| DOI: | 10.2514/1.30974 |
| Popis: | A NASA Mars technology program task is developing a prototype, embedded, real-time navigation system for Mars final approach and entry, descent, and landing using the Mars Network’s Electra ultrahigh frequency transceiver. The Mars Network is ideally situated to provide spacecraft-to-spacecraft navigation via the Electra ultrahigh frequency transceiver, which is a versatile telecommunications payload that is capable of providing autonomous on-orbit, real-time trajectory determination using two-way Doppler measurements between a Mars approach vehicle and a Mars Network orbiter. A set of analyses based on the 2010 encounter at Mars between the MarsScienceLaboratory and theMarsReconnaissanceOrbiter demonstrate that the navigation system is capable of achieving a 300m or better atmosphere entry knowledge error and that the resulting technology is a key component to enabling pinpoint landing. The development approach, software design, and test results from an engineering development unit are presented. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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