There have been a number of missions with spacecraft flying by planetary moons with atmospheres; there will be future missions with similar flybys. When a spacecraft such as Cassini flies by a moon with an atmosphere, the spacecraft will experience an atmospheric torque. This torque could be used to determine the density of the atmosphere. This is because the relation between the atmospheric torque vector and the atmosphere density could be established analytically using the mass properties of the spacecraft, known drag coefficient of objects in free-molecular flow, and the spacecraft velocity relative to the moon. The density estimated in this way could be used to check results measured by science instruments. Since the proposed methodology could estimate disturbance torque as small as 0.02 N-m, it could also be used to estimate disturbance torque imparted on the spacecraft during high-altitude flybys.


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    Titel :

    Estimating Torque Imparted on Spacecraft Using Telemetry


    Beteiligte:
    Lee, Allan Y. (Autor:in) / Wang, Eric K. (Autor:in) / Macala, Glenn A. (Autor:in)


    Erscheinungsdatum :

    01.01.2013


    Medientyp :

    Sonstige


    Format :

    Keine Angabe


    Sprache :

    Englisch





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