NASA’s Gateway program will build a crew-tended station in an Earth-Moon Near Rectilinear Halo Orbit (NRHO) to support deep space missions to the lunar surface and heliocentric space. The station in the NRHO will be tracked by the Deep Space Network (DSN) with 2-way radiometric tracking data to produce an estimated state that is utilized to target Orbit Maintenance Maneuvers (OMMs). However, the tracking data is corrupted with measurement noise and range bias, which results in state estimation error and OMM execution error. This paper reports on analysis performed to improve the geometry of the tracking data problem with the inclusion of cross-hemispheric partner sites and explores the performance impact of handovers between partner sites and DSN sites. The OMM execution error is estimated directly using a Batch Least Squares (BLS) process, and the range bias estimation is analyzed among both original DSN sites and a combined DSN + partner sites scenario.
Maneuver Reconstruction, Tracking Scheduling, and Bias Estimation in the Near Rectilinear Halo Orbit (NRHO)
45th Rocky Mountain AAS Guidance, Navigation and Control Conference ; 2023 ; Breckenridge, CO, US
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