Accession Number:
ADA282909
Title:
NPS State Vector Analysis and Relative Motion Plotting Software for STS-51
Descriptive Note:
Master's thesis
Corporate Author:
NAVAL POSTGRADUATE SCHOOL MONTEREY CA
Personal Author(s):
Report Date:
1994-03-01
Pagination or Media Count:
139.0
Abstract:
This thesis outlines the objectives, structure, and operation of the software designed to meet requirements set forth by Development Test Objective 700-6 for the space shuttle Discovery mission STS-51. The primary goals were the comparison of state vector information produced by GPS sources and Discoverys inertial navigation computer, and the real-time display of relative position and rendezvous information between Discovery and a retrievable shuttle pallet satellite. In-flight and postflight examination of GPS and inertial state vectors provided the first step in the development of GPS as an on-orbit navigation system. Analysis of the Orbiter and target satellite state vectors produced real-time graphical displays of operationally significant data to the Discoverys flight crew during rendezvous and proximity operations.
Descriptors:
- *NAVIGATION COMPUTERS
- *SPACE SHUTTLES
- *COMPUTER PROGRAMS
- *INERTIAL NAVIGATION
- *SPACE NAVIGATION
- *VECTOR ANALYSIS
- REAL TIME
- COMPARISON
- STRUCTURES
- MOTION
- THESES
- TIME
- GLOBAL POSITIONING SYSTEM
- MISSIONS
- ARTIFICIAL SATELLITES
- DATA ACQUISITION
- DATA DISPLAYS
- COMPUTER FILES
- PALLETS
- PLOTTING
- FLIGHT CREWS
- SPACECRAFT
- ORBITS
- REQUIREMENTS
- SOFTWARE ENGINEERING
- TEST AND EVALUATION
- TARGETS
Subject Categories:
- Computer Programming and Software
- Space Navigation and Guidance