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Autonomous aerobraking: a design, development, and feasibility study
| Content Provider | NASA Technical Reports Server (NTRS) |
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| Author | Powell, Richard W. Prince, Jill L. H. Murri, Dan |
| Copyright Year | 2011 |
| Description | Aerobraking has been used four times to decrease the apoapsis of a spacecraft in a captured orbit around a planetary body with a significant atmosphere utilizing atmospheric drag to decelerate the spacecraft. While aerobraking requires minimum fuel, the long time required for aerobraking requires both a large operations staff, and large Deep Space Network resources. A study to automate aerobraking has been sponsored by the NASA Engineering and Safety Center to determine initial feasibility of equipping a spacecraft with the onboard capability for autonomous aerobraking, thus saving millions of dollars incurred by a large aerobraking operations workforce and continuous DSN coverage. This paper describes the need for autonomous aerobraking, the development of the Autonomous Aerobraking Development Software that includes an ephemeris estimator, an atmospheric density estimator, and maneuver calculation, and the plan forward for continuation of this study. |
| File Size | 380140 |
| Page Count | 7 |
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| Alternate Webpage(s) | http://archive.org/details/NASA_NTRS_Archive_20110014523 |
| Archival Resource Key | ark:/13960/t75t8mq9s |
| Language | English |
| Publisher Date | 2011-07-31 |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Subject Keyword | Lunar And Planetary Science And Exploration Spacecraft Orbits Spacecraft Maneuvers Deep Space Network Magellan Spacecraft Nasa Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter Feasibility Analysis Autonomy Aerobraking Mars Missions Mars Global Surveyor Ntrs Nasa Technical Reports Server (ntrs) Nasa Technical Reports Server Aerodynamics Aircraft Aerospace Engineering Aerospace Aeronautic Space Science |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |
