The control of deep mission spacecraft by computing and signaling to the spacecraft a series of propulsive, velocity correction commands which maneuver the craft to its desired course is examined. The technical elements of the global navigation system (measurement, communications, computation, and propulsion) are described. The ground-computing facilities used to navigate spacecraft on deep space missions consist of computer and software systems used to compute orbits from radio tracking and on-board optical image data (radio, Doppler, and VLBI measurements). The accuracy of these measurements is evaluated, and the modeling of the data is discussed. Examples concerned with the navigation of Voyager and Galileo are presented.


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    Navigation of spacecraft on deep space missions


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    1987-01-01



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    Miscellaneous


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    English




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