The Mars Exploration Rover project consisted of two missions (MER-A: spirit rover and MER-B: opportunity rover) that launched spacecraft on June 10, 2003, and July 8, 2003, respectively. The spacecraft arrived at Mars approximately seven months later on January 4, 2004, and January 24, 2004. These spacecraft needed to be precisely navigated to a Mars atmospheric entry flight path angle of -11.5 deg +/-0.12 deg (3(sigma)) for MER-A and +/-0.14 deg (3(sigma)) for MER-B in order to satisfy the landing site delivery requirements. The orbit determination task of the navigation team needed to accurately determine the trajectory of the spacecraft, predict the trajectory to Mars atmospheric entry, and account for all possible errors sources so that the each spacecraft could be correctly targeted using five trajectory corrections along the way. This paper describes the orbit determination analysis which allowed MER-A to be targeted using only four trajectory correction maneuvers to an entry flight path angle of -11.49 deg +/-O.010 deg (3(sigma)) and MER-B to be targeted using only three trajectory correction maneuvers to an entry flight path angle of -11.47 +/-0.021 deg(3(sigma)).


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    Titel :

    Mars Exploration Rover Cruise Orbit Determination


    Beteiligte:
    Portock, Brian (Autor:in) / Baird, Darren (Autor:in) / Graat, Eric (Autor:in) / Guinn, Joseph (Autor:in) / McElrath, Tim (Autor:in) / Watkins, Michael (Autor:in)

    Kongress:

    AIAA/AAS Astrodynamics Specialst Conference and Exhibit ; 2004 ; Providence, RI, United States


    Erscheinungsdatum :

    2004-08-17


    Medientyp :

    Preprint


    Format :

    Keine Angabe


    Sprache :

    Englisch




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