Much of the work that the Space Shuttle will perform requires a capability to rendezvous with other orbiting objects. The formulation and design philosophy behind the Space Shuttle Orbiter rendezvous navigation system are the subjects of this paper. The current rendezvous navigation design incorporates a Kalman filter to estimate the relative position and velocity. The filter is augmented with state elements for the estimation of colored measurement noise and acceleration modeling errors. Several measurement types are available to the filter: a manual optical sighting device, an automatic optical tracking instrument, and a rendezvous radar which provides range and range rate measurements as well as the line of sight direction. The filter also includes a technique for detecting highly improbable measurements and excluding them from Kalman processing.
Space Shuttle Orbiter onboard rendezvous navigation
1982-01-01
Conference paper
No indication
English
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