Spacecraft landings on small bodies (asteroids and comets) can require target accuracies too stringent to be met using ground-based navigation alone, especially if specific landing site requirements must be met for safety or to meet science goals. In-situ optical observations coupled with onboard navigation processing can meet the tighter accuracy requirements to enable such missions. Recent developments in deep space navigation capability include a self-contained autonomous navigation system (used in flight on three missions) and a landmark tracking system (used experimentally on the Japanese Hayabusa mission). The merging of these two technologies forms a methodology to perform autonomous onboard navigation around small bodies. This paper presents an overview of these systems, as well as the results from Monte Carlo studies to quantify the achievable landing accuracies by using these methods. Sensitivity of the results to variations in spacecraft maneuver execution error, attitude control accuracy and unmodeled forces are examined. Cases for two bodies, a small asteroid and on a mid-size comet, are presented.


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    Titel :

    Small Body Landing Accuracy Using In-Situ Navigation


    Beteiligte:

    Kongress:

    AAS Guidance, Navigation, and Control Meeting ; 2011 ; Breckenridge, CO, United States


    Erscheinungsdatum :

    04.02.2011


    Medientyp :

    Aufsatz (Konferenz)


    Format :

    Keine Angabe


    Sprache :

    Englisch




    Small Body Landing Accuracy Using in-Situ Navigation (AAS 11-056)

    Bhaskaran, S. / Nandi, S. / Broschart, S. et al. | British Library Conference Proceedings | 2011