Computer Science – Performance
Scientific paper
Feb 1990
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1990tdar.nasa...48t&link_type=abstract
In its The Telecommunications and Data Acquisition Report p 48-54 (SEE N90-21880 15-32)
Computer Science
Performance
Doppler Navigation, Interferometers, Magellan Project (Nasa), Mission Planning, Orbit Calculation, Space Navigation, Synthetic Aperture Radar, Venus (Planet), Very Long Base Interferometry, Accuracy, Data Processing, Mapping, Narrowband, Radar Maps
Scientific paper
The pointing accuracy needed to support Magellan's Synthetic Aperture Radar mapping of Venus places stringent requirements on navigation accuracy. This need is met with a combination of two-way Doppler and narrowband delta Very Long Baseline Interferometer (delta VLBI) data, which are capable of determining the spacecraft's orbit to the required level, typically about one-kilometer position uncertainty. Differenced Doppler (two-way Doppler minus three-way Doppler) is also capable of meeting mission navigation requirements, and serves as a backup to narrowband delta VLBI. The Magellan Project specifies that the turn-around time for processing narrowband delta VLBI data must be 12 hours or less, a very difficult requirement to meet operationally. The use of phase-delay data, taken from a Connected-Element Interferometer (CEI) with a 21-km baseline, for Magellan orbit determination was investigated to determine if navigation performance comparable with narrowband delta VLBI and differenced Doppler could be achieved. CEI possesses an operational advantage over delta VLBI data in that the observables are constructed in near-real time, thus greatly reducing the turn-around time needed to process the data, relative to the off-line system used to generate delta VLBI observables. Unfortunately, the results indicate that CEI data are much less powerful than narrowband delta VLBI and differenced Doppler for orbiter navigation, although there was some marginal improvement over the navigation performance obtained when only two-way Doppler data were used.
Badilla G.
Thurman Sam W.
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