On Oct. 31st, 2018, the Dawn spacecraft completed its space journey covering more than 11 years including exploration of Vesta and Ceres, two protoplanets in the main asteroid belt. After successfully completing its prime mission at the dwarf planet Ceres, the Dawn mission was extended twice to pursue new scientific objectives. The second extended mission at Ceres, and the final mission for Dawn, presented a series of challenges that were new to the experienced and accomplished Dawn navigation team. This paper discusses mission design and navigational experiences and challenges during Dawn’s final transfer and orbit at Ceres. Topics include reference orbit design of the final science orbit, mission design and planning for the transfer, periapsis targeting over a surface feature, and analysis for planetary protection requirements.


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    Titel :

    Dawn's final mission at Ceres: navigation and mission design experience


    Beteiligte:
    Karimi, Reza (Autor:in) / Bradley, Nicholas (Autor:in) / Whiffen, Gregory (Autor:in) / Mastrodemos, Nickolas (Autor:in) / Grebow, Daniel (Autor:in) / Rush, Brian (Autor:in) / Kennedy, Brian (Autor:in) / Han, Dongsuk (Autor:in)

    Erscheinungsdatum :

    24.02.2019


    Medientyp :

    Preprint


    Format :

    Keine Angabe


    Sprache :

    Englisch




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