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|Title: ||Mars Exploration Rovers orbit determination filter strategy.|
|Authors: ||McElrath, Tim|
Watkins, Michael L.
|Keywords: ||orbit determination|
|Issue Date: ||16-Aug-2004 |
|Publisher: ||Pasadena, CA : Jet Propulsion Laboratory, National Aeronautics and Space Administration, 2004.|
|Citation: ||AIAA/AAS Astrodynamics Specialist Conference, Providence, Rhode Island, August 16-19, 2004.|
|Abstract: ||The successful delivery of the Mars Exploration Rover (MER) landers to well with in the boundaries of their surface target areas in January of 2004 was the culmination of years of orbit determination analysis. The process began with a careful consideration of the filter parameters used for pre-launch covariance studies, and continued with the refinement of the filter after launch based on operational experience. At the same time, tools were developed to run a plethora of variations around the nominal filter and anlyze the results in ways that had never been previously attempted for an interplanetary mission. In addition to the achieved sub-kilometer Mars B plane orbit determination knowledge, the filter strategy and process responded to unexpected error sources by both detecting them and proving robust. All these facets of the MER orbit determination filter strategy are described in this paper.|
|Other Identifiers: ||AIAA/AAS Astrodynamics Specialist Conference, Providence, Rhode Island, August 16-19, 2004.|
|Appears in Collections:||JPL TRS 1992+|
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