In the fall of 1994, Russia will launch a spacecraft to Mars. France is involved in many scientific experiments which are onboard the spacecraft, as PI or CI. Some days before the Mars orbit insertion maneuver, two small stations and two penetrators will be injected into an entry trajectory. They will carry out for at least six months in situ analysis on the Martian surface. Two years later, a second spacecraft will be launched. It will carry the French balloon and a small rover. The scientific data of these landers will be relayed to earth via the spacecraft. However, during the first 20 days of their mission, Mars Observer will be used. To this end, a Mars balloon relay will be used, which will receive the data from the landers and store them into the memory of the Mars Observer camera. The spacecraft will also be used to localize the landers with the help of relative one-way Doppler measurements. An international cooperative is set up for this process, including JPS, Russian ballistic centers (Babakine, Institute of Applied Mathematics, Moscow Flight Control Center), and CNES Toulouse. Another task dedicated to the space mathematics division of CNES is to support the French scientists to prepare their telecommands and to analyze their telemetry. This second part is integrated into the French ground segment created for the Mars 94/96 mission. This paper describes the method used in CNES for the localization process, the support provided to the scientists, and the links for the data exchange.


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    Title :

    Mars 1994/1996: The French Navigation Tasks


    Contributors:
    F. Bonneau (author) / J. Bernard (author) / D. Delobette (author)

    Publication date :

    1993


    Size :

    6 pages


    Type of media :

    Report


    Type of material :

    No indication


    Language :

    English




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