Mariner-Venus-Mercury optical navigation demonstration - Results and implications for future missions

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Jul 1975

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American Astronautical Society and American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Astrodynamics Specialist Conference, Nass

Astronomy and Astrophysics

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Astronavigation, Interplanetary Navigation, Mariner Venus-Mercury 1973, Optical Tracking, Spacecraft Guidance, Optical Correction Procedure, Optical Data Processing, Space Simulators, Spacecraft Television

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Optical navigation uses spacecraft television pictures of a target body against a known star background in a process which relates the spacecraft trajectory to the target body. This technology was used in the Mariner-Venus-Mercury mission, with the optical data processed in near-real-time, simulating a mission critical environment. Optical data error sources were identified, and a star location error analysis was carried out. Several methods for selecting limb crossing coordinates were used, and a limb smear compensation was introduced. Omission of planetary aberration corrections was the source of large optical residuals.

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