This paper examines the benefits of navigating a crewed vehicle between the Earth and the Moon using both ground tracking and satellite-to-satellite tracking. Linked Autonomous Interplanetary Satellite Orbit Navigation (LiAISON) is a new technique that has been shown to dramatically improve the navigation of lunar satellites, libration orbiters, and Earth orbiting satellites using scalar intersatellite observations. In this paper, LiAISON is applied to the problem of navigating a crewed vehicle to the Moon. It has been found that LiAISON observations improve the navigation accuracy enough to reduce the number of active ground tracking stations from six to three.


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    Title :

    Supporting Crewed Lunar Exploration with LiAISON Navigation



    Conference:

    AAS Annual Guidance and Control Conference ; 2013 ; Breckenridge, CO, United States


    Publication date :

    2013-02-01


    Type of media :

    Conference paper


    Type of material :

    No indication


    Language :

    English




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