Propellant-optimal trajectories, relative sensors and navigation, and docking/capture mechanisms are rendezvous disciplines that receive much attention in the technical literature. However, other areas must be considered. These include absolute navigation, maneuver targeting, attitude control, power generation, software development and verification, redundancy management, thermal control, avionics integration, robotics, communications, lighting, human factors, crew timeline, procedure development, orbital debris risk mitigation, structures, plume impingement, logistics, and in some cases extravehicular activity. While current and future spaceflight programs will introduce new technologies and operations concepts, the complexity of integrating multiple systems on multiple spacecraft will remain. The systems integration task may become more difficult as increasingly complex software is used to meet current and future automation, autonomy, and robotic operation requirements.


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    Title :

    Rendezvous Integration Complexities of NASA Human Flight Vehicles


    Contributors:

    Conference:

    2009 AAS GN&C Conference ; 2009 ; Virginia, United States


    Publication date :

    2009-01-30


    Type of media :

    Conference paper


    Type of material :

    No indication


    Language :

    English




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