The most recent NASA Discovery class mission to fly is the Lucy mission to the Trojan Asteroids of Jupiter. Launched in October of 2021, Lucy’s destination will be the unexplored Jupiter Trojan Asteroids that orbit the Sun at the stable L4 and L5 points ahead of, and behind Jupiter. This 12-year mission will perform close flybys of 1 main belt asteroid, Donaldjohanson, and 7 Trojans asteroids: Eurybates and its satellite Queta, Polymele, Leucus, Orus, and the near equal mass Trojan binary pair, Patroclus and Menoetius. The large distance from earth for the encounters, the high relative velocities and sun incidence angles on approach, and the limited number of Earth observations of the Trojans, make the delivery knowledge highly uncertain. To reduce the delivery uncertainties and maximize science return, Lucy employs a Terminal Tracking System consisting of optical imaging, centroiding and state estimation of the Trojan asteroids on approach and through close approach. This paper presents the Lucy Terminal Tracking System implementation, a brief overview of the mission and the GN&C subsystem.


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    Titel :

    TERMINAL TRACKING FOR THE LUCY TROJAN ASTEROID MISSION


    Beteiligte:
    Sandnas, Matt (Herausgeber:in) / Spencer, David B. (Herausgeber:in) / Good, Philip G. (Autor:in) / Faiks, Preston (Autor:in) / Pisano, William J. (Autor:in)


    Erscheinungsdatum :

    2024-01-01


    Format / Umfang :

    13 pages





    Medientyp :

    Aufsatz/Kapitel (Buch)


    Format :

    Elektronische Ressource


    Sprache :

    Englisch




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