The Deep Impact spacecraft flew by comet Hartley 2 on November 4, 2010 as part of its extended mission called EPOXI. Successful navigation depended critically on the quality and timing of optical navigation data processing, since pictures of the comet provided the most precise comet-relative position of the spacecraft. This paper describes the planning, including the picture timing and pointing; the methods used to determine the center of the comet image in each picture; and the optical navigation results, which provided the necessary information to allow the cameras to accurately target the comet for science imaging at encounter.


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    Titel :

    Optical Navigation for the EPOXI Mission


    Beteiligte:

    Kongress:

    21st Annual AAS/AIAA Space Flight Mechanics Meeting ; 2011 ; New Orleans, LA, United States


    Erscheinungsdatum :

    2011-02-16


    Medientyp :

    Aufsatz (Konferenz)


    Format :

    Keine Angabe


    Sprache :

    Englisch




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