The TRW built EOS Aqua spacecraft uses two Ball Aerospace CT-602 star trackers to provide attitude updates to the 3-axis, zero momentum, controller. Two months prior to the scheduled launch of Aqua, Ball reported an error in the design of the star tracker lightshades. The lightshades, which had been designed specifically for the EOS Common spacecraft, were not expected to meet the stray light rejection requirements of the mission, thus impacting the overall spacecraft pointing performance. What ensued was an effort to characterize the actual performance of the existing shade design, determine what could be done within the physical envelope available, and modify the hardware to meet requirements. Changes were made based on this review activity and Aqua was launched on May 4, 2002. To date the spacecraft is meeting all of its science pointing requirements. Reported here are the lightshade design predictions, test results, and the measured on orbit performance of these shades.


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    Titel :

    Performance of the Star Tracker Lightshades on the Earth Observing Satellite (EOS) Aqua


    Beteiligte:
    Kenny, Thomas (Autor:in) / Lee, Albert (Autor:in) / Donnelly, Michael (Autor:in) / Schroder, Michael (Autor:in) / McNally, Mark (Autor:in)

    Kongress:

    2003 AAS Guidance and Control Conference ; 2003 ; Breckenridge, CO, United States


    Erscheinungsdatum :

    2003-01-01


    Medientyp :

    Preprint


    Format :

    Keine Angabe


    Sprache :

    Englisch




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