타이틀 |
Deep Space Navigation, Planetary Science, and Astronomy: A Synergetic Relationship : Chapter 19 |
저자 |
Butrica, Andrew J. |
Keyword |
DEEP SPACE;; FLYBY MISSIONS;; INTERPLANETARY FLIGHT;; INTERPLANETARY NAVIGATION;; INTERPLANETARY TRAJECTORIES;; ORBIT DETERMINATION;; ORBITAL MANEUVERS;; SATELLITE GUIDANCE;; SOLAR SYSTEM;; SPACE EXPLORATION;; SPACECRAFT GUIDANCE;; SPACECRAFT POSITION INDICATORS |
URL |
http://hdl.handle.net/2060/20100025887 |
보고서번호 |
NASA/SP-2010-4704 |
발행년도 |
2010 |
출처 |
NTRS (NASA Technical Report Server) |
ABSTRACT |
The many technological and scientific accomplishments of NASA''s half century of solar system exploration succeeded in no small part because of the efforts and expertise of deep space navigators. Their crucial contribution to the Agency''s successes (and failures) is the ongoing determination of a space probe''s position. Spacecraft navigation assures the collection of vital scientific data, which Earth-bound scientists in turn interpret within a paradigmatic framework indigenous to their discipline. In short, behind the scientific successes of NASA''s missions of solar system exploration is deep space navigation. Far less apparent, but no less far-reaching, have been the contributions of deep space navigation to astronomy, a scientific discipline on which navigation is especially dependent, and the planetary sciences. This paper partially addresses this lacuna by summarizing deep space navigation s general evolution over the past five decades and by pointing out some examples of navigation''s role in advancing both astronomy and the planetary sciences. First, however, we need to understand what deep space navigation is. |