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Communicating navigation data inside the Cassini-Huygens project: visualizations and tools

Communicating navigation data inside the Cassini-Huygens project: visualizations and tools

Wagner, Sean V.; Gist, Emily M.; Goodson, Troy D.; Hahn, Yungsun; Stumpf, Paul W.; Williams, Powtawche N.
URI: http://hdl.handle.net/2014/45445
Date: 2008-08-18
Keywords: maneuver
Publisher: Pasadena, CA : Jet Propulsion Laboratory, National Aeronautics and Space Administration, 2008
Citation: AIAA/AAS Astrodynamics Specialist Conference, Honolulu, Hawaii, August 18-21, 2008

Abstract:

The Cassini-Huygens Saturn tour poses an interesting navigation challenge. From July 2004 through June 2008, the Cassini orbiter performed 112 of 161 planned maneuvers. This demanding schedule, where maneuvers are often separated by just a few days, motivated the development of maneuver design/analysis automation software tools. Besides generating maneuver designs and presentations, these tools are the mechanism to producing other types of navigation information; information used to facilitate operational decisions on such issues as maneuver cancellation and alternate maneuver strategies. This paper will discuss the navigation data that are communicated inside the Cassini-Huygens Project, as well as the maneuver software tools behind the processing of the data.

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