Distributed Spacecraft missions are an integral part of current and future plans for NASA and other space agencies. Many of these multi-vehicle missions involve utilizing the array of spacecraft as a single, dispersed instrument requiring communication via crosslinks to achieve mission goals. NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC) is developing the Formation Flying Test Bed (FFTB) to provide a hardware-in-the-loop simulation environment to support mission concept development and system trades with a primary focus on Guidance, Navigation, and Control (GN&C) challenges associated with spacecraft formation flying. The goal of the FFTB is to reduce mission risk by assisting in mission planning and analysis, providing a technology development platform that allows algorithms to be developed for mission functions such as precision formation navigation and control and time synchronization. The FFTB will provide a medium in which the various crosslink transponders being used in multi-vehicle missions can be integrated for development and test; an integral part of the FFTB is the Crosslink Channel Simulator (CCS).
Development of a Crosslink Channel Simulator
2004
12 pages
Report
Keine Angabe
Englisch
Space Technology , Navigation & Guidance System Components , Space missions , Formation flying , Simulators , Satellite navigation systems , Crosslinking , Spacecraft , Computerized simulation , Algorithms , Communication satellites , Global positioning systems , Radio frequencies , Computer programs , Space vehicles , NASA programs
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