A Review of Options for Autonomous Cislunar Navigation

Christian, John A.; Lightsey, E. Glenn

doi:10.2514/6.2008-7265

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“…Lunar and cislunar navigation can be achieved with automated optical tracking systems. Recent studies comparing the Apollo program optical navigation system and subsequent technology advances have shown the viability for automated onboard cislunar navigation for the Orion program [4]. Ball Aerospace has a long history of excellence in the field of star trackers and optical systems.…”

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Architecture for Lunar Return Using Existing Assets

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Vozoff

et al. 2013

Journal of Spacecraft and Rockets

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The United States has a human space-flight program that bypasses the lunar surface in favor of missions to near-Earth objects and Mars. These are laudable goals, but the moon also has much to offer. Limited budgets probably preclude a U.S. government-sponsored human lunar exploration in the coming decade; however, the possibility exists for such to be accomplished by private enterprise. It is posited that, to bring costs within a range that might make a business case close, the mission must be relatively austere and make maximum use of existing assets and capabilities. This paper reports on a study conducted to evaluate the feasibility of lunar mission architectures primarily using as much existing or in-development, commercially available hardware and technology as possible. In particular, dual Earth-orbit rendezvous-lunar-orbit rendezvous and dual launch-lunar-orbit rendezvous missions are studied using existing and in-development flight systems as examples. The solutions described here are found to be feasible, to substantially reduce development requirements relative to recent post-Apollo approaches involving entirely new launchers and crew capsules, and to offer the possibility of human lunar expeditions at costs not unlike robotic flagship exploration missions.

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Architecture for Lunar Return Using Existing Assets

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Vozoff

et al. 2013

Journal of Spacecraft and Rockets

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“…Bowers (1966), followed by Tuckness and Young (1995) demonstrated the method that adopts angular measurements between known stars and known landmarks on the Earth or Moon for trans-lunar cruise navigation. Main advantages of these solutions lie in their autonomy and robustness, however, the navigation accuracy may not satisfy the requirement of actual missions (Christian and Lightsey, 2009). Considering the specific dynamical properties of the Earth-Moon system, Farquhar (1967) first proposed the concept of using Earth-Moon libration point satellites for lunar navigation.…”

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Navigation Performance of the Libration Point Satellite Navigation System in Cislunar Space

Zhang

2014

J. Navigation

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Based on the candidate architectures of the libration point satellite navigation system proposed in our previous work, a navigation performance study is conducted in this paper to verify the cislunar navigation ability of the proposed system. Using scalar satellite-to-satellite range measurement between the user and libration point navigation satellites, a virtual lunar exploration mission scenario is developed to verify the navigation performance of the candidate Earth-Moon L 1,2,4,5 four-satellite constellations. The simulation results indicate that the libration point satellite navigation system is available for cislunar navigation and the navigation accuracy of a few tens of metres can be achieved for both the trans-lunar cruise and lunar orbit phase. Besides that, it is also found that the navigation accuracy of the libration point satellite navigation system is sensitive to the orbit of the L 1 satellite. Once the L 1 navigation satellite is located in the Halo orbit or vertical Lyapunov orbit, the proposed system can present a better navigation performance in cislunar space. K E Y WO R D S 1. Libration point satellite.2. Autonomous navigation. 3. Cislunar space. 4. Numerical simulation.

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Autonomous Navigation for Spacecraft Around Mars Based on Information Fusion with Cross-Correlation Noise

Li¹,

Wang²

2016

Proceedings of 2016 Chinese Intelligent Systems Conference

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A Review of Options for Autonomous Cislunar Navigation

Cited by 6 publications

References 29 publications

Architecture for Lunar Return Using Existing Assets

Architecture for Lunar Return Using Existing Assets

Navigation Performance of the Libration Point Satellite Navigation System in Cislunar Space

Autonomous Navigation for Spacecraft Around Mars Based on Information Fusion with Cross-Correlation Noise

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