After the forty-fifth flyby of Titan, the Cassini spacecraft has successfully completed the planned four-year prime mission tour of the Saturnian system. This paper reports on the orbit determination performance of the Cassini spacecraft over two years spanning 2006 - 2008. In this time span, Cassini's orbit progressed through the magnetotail and pi-transfer phases of the mission. Thirty-four accurate close encounters of Titan, one close flyby of Iapetus and one 50 km flyby of Enceladus were performed during this period. The Iapetus and Enceladus flybys were especially challenging and so the orbit determination supporting these encounters will be discussed in more detail. This paper will show that in most cases orbit determination has exceeded the navigation requirements for targeting flybys and predicting science instrument pointing during these encounters.


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    Titel :

    Cassini Orbit Determination Results: January 2006 - End of Prime Mission


    Beteiligte:
    Antreasian, P. G. (Autor:in) / Ardalan, S. M. (Autor:in) / Bordi, J. J. (Autor:in) / Criddle, K. E. (Autor:in) / Ionasescu, R. (Autor:in) / Jacobson, R. A. (Autor:in) / Jones, J. B. (Autor:in) / Mackenzie, R. A. (Autor:in) / Parcher, D. W. (Autor:in) / Pelletier, F. J. (Autor:in)

    Kongress:

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


    Erscheinungsdatum :

    2008-08-18


    Medientyp :

    Aufsatz (Konferenz)


    Format :

    Keine Angabe


    Sprache :

    Englisch




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