Twelve scientific instruments onboard the Cassini spacecraft depend on the accurate pointing capabilities of the spacecraft to return data critical to the success of the mission and to improving our understanding of Saturn. Throughout the seven year interplanetary cruise to Saturn and the four year prime mission, the control of the Cassini spacecraft is achieved by employing either the Reaction Control System (RCS) composed of a set of eight thrusters or the Reaction Wheel Assembly (RWA) made up of four reaction wheels, only three of which are active at a given time. The operations of Cassini imaging instruments (such as the Narrow Angle Camera) require a high level of spacecraft pointing stability in order to minimize the distortion and smearing of the image during the exposure time. In designing the Cassini attitude control system, a pointing stability performance metric that considered the frequency contents of the disturbance sources was employed. The flight performance of the Cassini pointing stability, achieved with a set of three reaction wheels or RCS thrusters, is summarized in this paper.


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    Titel :

    Pointing Stability Performance of the Cassini Spacecraft


    Beteiligte:

    Kongress:

    2008 AIAA/AAS Astrodynamics Specialists Conference ; 2008 ; Honolulu, HI, United States


    Erscheinungsdatum :

    2008-08-18


    Medientyp :

    Aufsatz (Konferenz)


    Format :

    Keine Angabe


    Sprache :

    Englisch




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