Citation
Abstract
The initial acquisition of a spacecraft by the Deep Space Network (DSN) is a critical mission event. This results from the importance of rapidly evaluating the health and trajectory of a spacecraft in the event that immediate corrective action might be required. Further, the DSN initial acquisition is always complicated by the most extreme tracking rates of the mission. DSN initial acquisition characteristics will change considerably in the upcoming Space Shuttle launch era, This article describes the method being developed for evaluating the impact of spacecraft injection errors on DSN initial acquisitions during the Space Shuttle launch era.
Details
- Volume
- 42-64
- Published
- August 15, 1981
- Pages
- 80–82
- File Size
- 272.2 KB