Fixed-head star tracker attitude updates on the Hubble Space Telescope

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May 1994

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1994fmet.symp...79n&link_type=abstract

In its Flight Mechanics/Estimation Theory Symposium, 1994 p 79-93 (SEE N94-35605 11-13)

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Failure Analysis, Hubble Space Telescope, Satellite Orientation, Star Trackers, Attitude Gyros, Field Of View, Guidance Sensors, Optical Measuring Instruments, Spacecraft Guidance, Spacecraft Instruments

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The Hubble Space Telescope (HST) was launched in April 1990 to begin observing celestial space to the edge of the universe. National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) standard fixed-head star trackers (FHST's) are used operationally onboard the HST to regularly adjust ('update') the spacecraft attitude before the acquisition of guide stars for science observations. During the first 3 months of the mission, the FHST's updated the spacecraft attitude successfully only 85 percent of the time. During the other periods, the trackers were unable to find the selected stars -- either they failed to find any star, or worse, they selected incorrect stars and produced erroneous attitude updates. In July 1990, the HST project office at Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC) requested that Computer Sciences Corporation (CSC) form an investigative 'tiger' team to examine these FHST update failures. This paper discusses the work of the FHST tiger team, describes the investigations that led the team to identify the sources of the errors, and defines the solutions that were subsequently developed, which ultimately increased the success rate of FHST updates to approximately 98 percent.

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