After a seven-month interplanetary cruise, the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter arrived at Mars and executed a 1.0 km/s Mars Orbit Insertion (MOI) maneuver. The post-MOI orbit was highly elliptical with a 35 hour, 428 km x 45000 km altitude orbit. To establish a useful science orbit, the navigation team used an aerobraking technique to guide the spacecraft into a 2-hour, 255 km x 320 km altitude orbit. This paper details the aerobraking navigation operation strategy and flight results. It also describes the aerobraking key requirements and navigation challenges.


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    Title :

    Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter Aerobraking Navigation Operation



    Conference:

    SpaceOps 2008 ; 2008 ; Heidelberg, Germany


    Publication date :

    2008-05-12


    Type of media :

    Conference paper


    Type of material :

    No indication


    Language :

    English




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