Simultaneous calibrations of Voyager celestial and inertial attitude control systems in flight
Abstract
A mathematical description of the data reduction technique used to simultaneously calibrate the Voyager celestial and inertial attitude control subsystems is given. It is shown that knowledge of the spacecraft limit cycle motion, as measured by the celestial and the inertial sensors, is adequate to result in the estimates of a selected number of errors which adversely affect the spacecraft attitude knowledge.
- Publication:
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IEEE Transactions on Aerospace Electronic Systems
- Pub Date:
- January 1982
- DOI:
- 10.1109/TAES.1982.309202
- Bibcode:
- 1982ITAES..18...21J
- Keywords:
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- Attitude Control;
- Calibrating;
- Celestial Navigation;
- Inertial Guidance;
- Spacecraft Control;
- Voyager Project;
- Data Reduction;
- Error Analysis;
- Guidance Sensors;
- In-Flight Monitoring;
- Optimal Control;
- Solar Sensors;
- Voyager 1 Spacecraft;
- Voyager 2 Spacecraft;
- Spacecraft Instrumentation