This paper will discuss the OPALS pointing strategy, focusing on incorporation of ISS trajectory and attitude models to build pointing predictions. Methods to extrapolate an ISS prediction based on past data will be discussed and will be compared to periodically published ISS predictions and Two-Line Element (TLE) predictions. The prediction performance will also be measured against GPS states available in telemetry. The performance of the pointing products will be compared to the allocated values in the OPALS pointing budget to assess compliance with requirements.


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    Title :

    The OPALS Plan for Operations: Use of ISS Trajectory and Attitude Models in the OPALS Pointing Strategy


    Contributors:

    Conference:

    Annual ISS Research and Development Conference ; 2013 ; Denver, CO, United States


    Publication date :

    2013-07-16


    Type of media :

    Conference paper


    Type of material :

    No indication


    Language :

    English




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