GPS Based Autonomous Navigation Study for the Lunar Gateway

Abstract

This paper describes and predicts the performance of a conceptual autonomous GPS-based navigation system for NASAs planned Lunar Gateway. The system is based on the flight-proven Magnetospheric Multiscale (MMS) GPS navigation system augmented with an Earth-pointed high-gain antenna and, optionally, an atomic clock. High-fidelity simulations, calibrated against MMS flight data and making use of GPS transmitter patterns from the GPS Antenna Characterization Experiment project, are developed to predict performance of the system in the Gateway Near-Rectilinear Halo Orbit. The results indicate that GPS can provide an autonomous, realtime navigation capability with comparable, or superior, performance to a ground-based Deep Space Network approach using eight hours of tracking data per day.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jan 01, 2019
Accession Number
AD1121964

Entities

People

  • Anne C. Long
  • Luke B. Winternitz
  • Munther Hassouneh
  • William A. Bamford

Organizations

  • Emergent Space Technologies (United States)
  • National Aeronautics and Space Administration

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Materials and Manufacturing Processes
  • Space

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Accuracy
  • Apogees
  • Artificial Satellites
  • Celestial Navigation
  • Computational Science
  • Deep Space
  • Earth Orbits
  • Global Navigation Satellite Systems
  • Global Positioning Systems
  • High Altitude
  • High Gain
  • Inertial Measurement Units
  • Information Science
  • Jet Propulsion
  • Kalman Filters
  • Measurement
  • Monte Carlo Method
  • Navigation
  • Navigation Satellites
  • Orbits
  • Range Finding
  • Simulations
  • Solar Radiation
  • Spacecraft
  • Spacecraft Orbits
  • Standards
  • Statistics
  • Trajectories

Readers

  • Distributed Systems and Data Platform Development
  • Personnel Management and Statistics in the Military and Department of Defense
  • Positioning, Navigation, and Timing (PNT) Technology.

Technology Areas

  • Space
  • Space - Orbital Debris