A description is given of some advanced spacecraft control applications. The Gamma Ray Observatory (GRO) has decision-making software that gives each of its instruments some discretion as to what it observes, as well as a local area network over which one instrument can alert the rest to a special event. The Hubble Space Telescope, a joint project of NASA and the European Space Agency, relies on artificial intelligence in ground-based software to schedule when it is to view some object, while onboard control systems let it find and track targets with a precision finer than systems on earth. In the probe the Galileo spacecraft will release into Jupiter's atmosphere, the electronics are engineered to survive forces up to 350 times the Earth's gravity and heat as great as on the Sun's surface.


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    Title :

    Next-generation spacecraft control


    Additional title:

    Raumfahrzeugsteuerung der nächsten Generation


    Contributors:
    Bell, T.E. (author)

    Published in:

    IEEE Spectrum ; 26 , 12 ; 34-38


    Publication date :

    1989


    Size :

    5 Seiten



    Type of media :

    Article (Journal)


    Type of material :

    Print


    Language :

    English





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