Joint Milli-Arcsecond Pathfinder Survey (JMAPS): Overview and Application to NWO Mission

Abstract

The Joint Milli-Arcsecond Pathfinder Survey (JMAPS) mission is a Department of Navy (DoN) space-based, all-all sky astrometric bright star survey, current set with a 2012 launch date. JMAPS will use a relatively modest aperture, very high accuracy astrometric telescope flown in low earth orbit aboard a microsat. Mission baseline is for a three-year mission life (2012-2015) in a 900 km sun synchonous terminator orbit. JMAPS will produce an all-sky astrometric, photometric and spectroscopic catalog covering the magnitude range of 1-12, with extended results through 15th magnitude at an accuracy of 1 milliarchsecond (mas) positional accuracy. Secondly, JMAPS will mature, demonstrate and fly attitued sensing instrumentation that is accurate to 5 mas.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Mar 11, 2009
Accession Number
ADA510306

Entities

People

  • B. Dorland
  • R. Dudik

Organizations

  • United States Naval Observatory

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Space

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Abstracts
  • Accuracy
  • Data Rate
  • Detectors
  • Earth Orbits
  • Errors
  • Focal Planes
  • Information Operations
  • Instrumentation
  • Low Earth Orbits
  • Observatories
  • Orbits
  • Residuals
  • Simulators
  • Space Based
  • Spacecraft
  • Standards

Fields of Study

  • Physics

Readers

  • Astronomy/Astrophysics
  • Space Exploration and Orbital Mechanics.

Technology Areas

  • Space
  • Space - Satellites