We summarize work performed involving thermo-optical modeling of the two Gravity Recovery And Interior Laboratory (GRAIL) spacecraft. We derived several reconciled spacecraft thermo-optical models having varying detail. We used the simplest in calculating SRP acceleration, and used the most detailed to calculate acceleration due to thermal re-radiation. For the latter, we used both the output of pre-launch finite-element-based thermal simulations and downlinked temperature sensor telemetry. The estimation process to recover the lunar gravity field utilizes both a nominal thermal re-radiation accleration history and an apriori error model derived from that plus an off-nominal history, which bounds parameter uncertainties as informed by sensitivity studies.


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    Title :

    Spacecraft Thermal and Optical Modeling Impacts on Estimation of the GRAIL Lunar Gravity Field


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    Conference:

    AIAA/AAS Astrodynamics Specialist Conference ; 2012 ; Minneapolis, MN, United States


    Publication date :

    2012-08-13


    Type of media :

    Conference paper


    Type of material :

    No indication


    Language :

    English




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