Citation
Abstract
Laboratory test results of the initialization and tracking performance of an existing Inertial-sensor-based instrument are given. The instrument, although not primarily designed for precision antenna pointing applications, demonstrated an on-average 10-hour tracking error of several millidegrees. The system-level instrument performance is shown by analysis to be sensor limited. Simulated instrument Improvements show a tracking error of less than 1 mdeg, which would provide acceptable performance, 1.e., low pointing loss, for the DSN 70-m antenna subnetwork, operating at Ka-band (1-cm wavelength).
Details
- Volume
- 42-109
- Published
- May 15, 1992
- Pages
- 94–104
- File Size
- 338.4 KB