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Orion exploration flight test-1 contingency drogue deploy velocity trigger
| Content Provider | NASA Technical Reports Server (NTRS) |
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| Author | Gay, Robert S. Stochowiak, Susan Smith, Kelly |
| Copyright Year | 2013 |
| Description | As a backup to the GPS-aided Kalman filter and the Barometric altimeter, an "adjusted" velocity trigger is used during entry to trigger the chain of events that leads to drogue chute deploy for the Orion Multi-Purpose Crew Vehicle (MPCV) Exploration Flight Test-1 (EFT-1). Even though this scenario is multiple failures deep, the Orion Guidance, Navigation, and Control (GN&C) software makes use of a clever technique that was taken from the Mars Science Laboratory (MSL) program, which recently successfully landing the Curiosity rover on Mars. MSL used this technique to jettison the heat shield at the proper time during descent. Originally, Orion use the un-adjusted navigated velocity, but the removal of the Star Tracker to save costs for EFT-1, increased attitude errors which increased inertial propagation errors to the point where the un-adjusted velocity caused altitude dispersions at drogue deploy to be too large. Thus, to reduce dispersions, the velocity vector is projected onto a "reference" vector that represents the nominal "truth" vector at the desired point in the trajectory. Because the navigation errors are largely perpendicular to the truth vector, this projection significantly reduces dispersions in the velocity magnitude. This paper will detail the evolution of this trigger method for the Orion project and cover the various methods tested to determine the reference "truth" vector; and at what point in the trajectory it should be computed. |
| File Size | 773645 |
| Page Count | 11 |
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| Alternate Webpage(s) | http://archive.org/details/NASA_NTRS_Archive_20130003311 |
| Archival Resource Key | ark:/13960/t74v1m355 |
| Language | English |
| Publisher Date | 2013-02-01 |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Subject Keyword | Spacecraft Design, Testing And Performance Flight Tests Actuators Navigation Jettisoning Guidance Motion Global Positioning System Trajectories Attitude Inclination Heat Shielding Drag Chutes Crew Exploration Vehicle Kalman Filters Descent Ntrs Nasa Technical Reports Server (ntrs) Nasa Technical Reports Server Aerodynamics Aircraft Aerospace Engineering Aerospace Aeronautic Space Science |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |
