This assessment was requested by the NASA Engineering and Safety Center (NESC) Guidance, Navigation, and Control (GN&C) Technical Discipline Team (TDT), which identified the topic as an unrecognized critical need for the Agency’s future space science observatory-class space platforms. An initial low-fidelity feasibility study of the use of cold-gas micro-thrusters as a replacement for reaction wheels was performed in 2017 as a GN&C TDT discretionary activity. The assessment documented in this final report was initiated in 2018 as a follow-on high-fidelity study.


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    Title :

    Application of Micro-Thruster Technology for Space Observatory Pointing Stability


    Contributors:
    C. J. Dennehy (author) / A. A. Wolf (author) / A. Wu (author) / R. Chiang (author) / E. T. Stoneking (author) / J. K. Ziemer (author)

    Publication date :

    2020


    Size :

    105 pages


    Type of media :

    Report


    Type of material :

    No indication


    Language :

    English




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