Spaceborne Autonomous Formation-Flying Experiment on the PRISMA Mission

D’Amico, Simone; Ardaens, Jean-Sébastien; Larsson, Robin

doi:10.2514/1.55638

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“…Similar and even more frequent maneuvers arise in the Prototype Research Instruments and Space Mission technology Advancement (PRISMA) mission, which is a Swedish-led autonomous formation-flying experiment (Gill et al 2007). Coping with such frequent maneuvers, e.g., more than 20 maneuvers per day during a certain phase, is a key issue for both absolute and relative navigation for PRISMA formation (D'Amico et al 2012(D'Amico et al , 2013.…”

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Precise orbit and baseline determination for maneuvering low earth orbiters

Herring

et al. 2015

GPS Solut

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Orbital maneuvers are usually performed as needed for low earth orbiters to maintain a predefined trajectory or formation-flying configuration. To avoid unexpected discontinuities and to connect pre-and postmaneuver arcs with a minimal set of parameters, a maneuver has to be considered in the routine GPS-based orbit determinations. We propose a maneuver handling method in a reduced-dynamic scheme. With the proper thrust modeling and numerical integration strategy, the effects caused by orbital maneuver can be largely eliminated. The performance for both single-satellite precise orbit determination (POD) and inter-satellite precise baseline determination (PBD) is demonstrated using selected data sets from the Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment (GRACE) mission. For the POD results, the orbit determination residuals indicate that the orbit with maneuver modeling is well fit to the GPS observations. The external orbit validation shows that the GRACE-B orbits obtained from our approach match the DLR reference orbits better than 3 cm (3D RMS), which is comparable to the result of the maneuver-free GRACE-A satellite. For the PBD results, on average 87 % of double-difference phase ambiguities can be resolved to integers and an RMS of the K-band ranging system residuals of better than 0.7 mm can be achieved, even though the orbital maneuver was performed on the spacecraft. Furthermore, the actual maneuver performance derived from the POD and PBD results provides rigorous feedback on the thruster system, which is not only beneficial for current maneuver assessment but also for future maneuver plans.

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Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 97%

Precise orbit and baseline determination for maneuvering low earth orbiters

Herring

et al. 2015

GPS Solut

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“…Though autonomous formation flying (AFF) flight demonstrations also validate similar GN&C technologies as ARvD, "the scientific literature makes a clear distinction between the two" [93]. Thus, AFF missions [94] are not covered in this paper; for this, we direct readers to the detailed surveys of Scharf et al on formation flying guidance [95] and control [96], respectively, along with [3] for a survey of recent missions.…”

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Robotics and AI-Enabled On-Orbit Operations With Future Generation of Small Satellites

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“…1, where the image frame is indicated by the subscript D. The algorithm prototyping and testing described in this paper is based on such images collected in October 2011 in the frame of the PRISMA mission. During the considered flight experiments, the Servicer (Mango) approaches the Client (Tango) satellite at about 10 m separation in forced motion control based on relative GPS navigation [1,[14][15]. Several considerations can be done on Eq.…”

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“…Reference flight dynamics products based on precision carrier-phase differential GPS (relative position) and coarse sun-magnetic attitude estimates (relative attitude) are compared with the pose estimator results [14][15]. Deviations of the order of 10 cm in position and 10 deg in rotation can be inferred at 10 m separation.…”

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