The Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA) mission is a planned NASA-ESA gravity wave detector consisting of three spacecraft in heliocentric orbit. Lasers are used to measure distance fluctuations between the proof masses aboard the spacecraft to the picometer level over the 5 million kilometer spacing. Each spacecraft and it's two laser transmit/receive telescopes must be held stable in pointing to less than 8 nanoradians per root Hertz in the frequency band 0.1 mHz to 0.1 Hz. This is accomplished by sensing the pointing error in the received beam and controlling the spacecraft attitude with a set of micronewton thrusters. Requirements, sensors, actuators, control design, and simulations are described in this paper.
Precision Pointing for the Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA) Mission
2003 AAS Guidance and Control Conference ; 2003 ; CO, United States
2003-01-01
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Mission analysis for the Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA) mission
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