As the Goddard Space Flight Center's (GSFC) Flight Dynamics Facility (FDF) continues to ensure mission success in support of Human Space Flight (HSF) and Launch Vehicle (LV) missions, it continues to improve on different areas of mission support. The FDF processes numerous different types of trajectory profiles, and, for each trajectory, the FDF provides multiple acquisition data vectors to the Space Network (SN) White Sands Complex (WSC) for further processing and uplinking to the SN's Tracking and Data Relay Satellites (TDRSs), tracking the vehicle and maintaining communications throughout required support. Some trajectories target a specific orbit plane through Right Ascension of the Ascending Node (RAAN), or yaw, steering, which can yield to high variability across the launch window. Because of this, there can be a large number of trajectory profiles to process and generate acquisition data for that ensure TDRS is accurately pointing to the launch vehicle. Processing many trajectory profiles by FDF and WSC increases the complexity and level of effort associated with support. FDF employs a legacy boundary on the range difference between trajectories, which determines the number of discrete trajectory cases required to maintain communication with TDRS over the full launch window. An analysis was performed to determine a new boundary, taking into consideration current support requirements. The results show the boundary can be expanded beyond the currently employed legacy value without an impact on communication. In doing so, the number of trajectory profiles processed can be reduced, reducing the complexity and level of effort required, with no impact to mission safety.


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    Titel :

    Streamlining Pre-Launch Support for Missions with Highly Variable Trajectories


    Beteiligte:

    Kongress:

    Improving Space Operations Workshop 2019 ; 2019 ; Santa Clara, CA, United States


    Erscheinungsdatum :

    2019-05-01


    Medientyp :

    Sonstige


    Format :

    Keine Angabe


    Sprache :

    Englisch




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