The goal of NASA’s Artemis Program is to explore the Moon and beyond. The Artemis I Mission which flew in late 2022 was the uncrewed test flight whose goal was to exercise the entire navigation system in an extended duration flight and evaluate its performance over the entire mission, from pre-launch to post-landing. This paper provides an overview of the Artemis I navigation system architecture, examines the reasoning behind the design, and showcases the navigation performance. In particular, it presents systems-level performance of the navigation filters, sensors, and fault detection/isolation/recovery (FDIR). Also provided are glimpses into the lessons-learned during the flight, the run-up to the mission, and the post-flight analyses. Of particular interest are the four navigation Extended Kalman Filters (EKFs): the Atmospheric EKF (ATMEKF), the Earth Orbit EKF (EOEKF), the Attitude EKF (ATTEKF) and the Cislunar EKF (CLEKF). Whereas only the ATMEKF is a coupled translation/rotation filter, the other three are either translation-only (EOEKF, CLEKF) or rotation-only (ATTEKF). Also presented is an overview of the Optical Navigation system performance.


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    Title :

    An Overview of the Artemis I Navigation Performance


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    Conference:

    45th Annual AAS Guidance, Navigation and Control (GN&C) Conference ; 2023 ; Breckenridge, CO, US


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    Conference paper


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    English


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