BioSentinel is a 6U CubeSat active in heliocentric orbit, as of April 2024. The spacecraft was launched aboard the first SLS flight as part of the Artemis-I campaign in November 2022. After successful separation from the upper stage of SLS, it performed a lunar flyby which provided the necessary energy to achieve an Earth-trailing heliocentric orbit. This paper includes a description of the final science orbit as well as its evolution, the techniques and procedures utilized to perform the orbit determination and a description of the overall navigation campaign, with emphasis on the heliocentric orbit operations.


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    Title :

    Deep space navigation for the BioSentinel CubeSat science orbit


    Contributors:

    Conference:

    Small Satellites Systems and Services Symposium (4S 2024) ; 2024 ; Palma de Mallorca, Spain


    Published in:

    Proc. SPIE ; 13546


    Publication date :

    2025-03-20





    Type of media :

    Conference paper


    Type of material :

    Electronic Resource


    Language :

    English




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