The Cassini-Huygens mission is a flagship class NASA/ESA mission to the planet Saturn. Launched in 1997, Cassini is still successfully operating after 16 years of flight and the telemetry from the attitude control hardware on Cassini has produced an immense dataset that allows the Cassini operations team to report on the long-term performance of several commercially available GNC hardware components in the space environment. This investigation summarizes the in-flight performance of the two inertial reference units aboard Cassini. Each of the two Cassini inertial reference units contains four hemispherical quartz resonator gyros. The Cassini operations team previously reported on the performance of the inertial reference units in 2007, and this paper provides an update with an additional 6 years of flight experience at Saturn.


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    Title :

    In-Flight Performance of the Cassini Hemispherical Quartz Resonator Gyro Inertial Reference Units


    Contributors:

    Conference:

    AIAA Guidance, Navigation, and Control Conference ; 2013 ; Boston, MA, United States


    Publication date :

    2013-08-19


    Type of media :

    Conference paper


    Type of material :

    No indication


    Language :

    English






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