As a result of delays in the Space Shuttle program and a re-evaluation of safety concerns which resulted in cancellation of the Shuttle Centaur Upper Stage program, the Galileo mission to Jupiter has undergone a substantial redesign effort. Use of the Inertial Upper Stage (IUS) for injection has necessitated a complicated Venus-Earth-Earth gravity assist trajectory in order to reach Jupiter. One flyby of Venus and two flybys of Earth are required to compensate for the lower injection energy available from the IUS. As the spacecraft was not originally designed for the environment within 1 AU of the Sun, modifications to the spacecraft and operating procedures have been developed. This paper describes some of these changes and how they have affected the design and implementation of trajectory correction maneuvers on the Earth-Venus leg of the mission. A strategy of biasing the IUS target at injection to control the statistical velocity distribution of a subsequent trajectory correction maneuver is discussed.


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    Title :

    Galileo Earth-Venus trajectory correction maneuver design


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    Conference:

    AIAA/AAS Astrodynamics Conference ; 1988 ; Minneapolis, MN, United States


    Publication date :

    1988-01-01


    Type of media :

    Conference paper


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    No indication


    Language :

    English


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