This paper provides a brief overview of the DSI attitude control subsystem, shares a few lessons-learned, and describes some of the many daunting challenges faced by our tiny flight team during the course of the mission. Special focus will be given to the nuances of flying a spacecraft with ion propulsion, our nick-of-time rewrite of the attitude determination software after the failure of the on-board star tracker in late 1999, and DSl's subsequent successful flyby of comet Borrelly on September 22, 2001.


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    Title :

    Deep Space 1 flight experience: adventures on an ion drive (AAS 02-072)


    Contributors:
    Collins, S. (author)

    Conference:

    25th Annual AAS Guidance and Control Conference


    Publication date :

    2002-02-06


    Type of media :

    Conference paper


    Type of material :

    No indication


    Language :

    English




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