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Guidance, navigation, and control performance for the GOES-R spacecraft

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The Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite-R series (GOES-R) is the first of the next generation geostationary weather satellites. The series represents a dramatic increase in Earth observation capabilities, with 4 times the resolution, 5 times the observation rate, and 3 times the number of spectral bands. GOES-R also provides unprecedented availability, with less than 120 min per year of lost observation time. This paper presents the guidance navigation & control (GN&C) requirements necessary to realize the ambitious pointing, knowledge, and image navigation and registration (INR) objectives of GOES-R. Because the suite of instruments is sensitive to disturbances over a broad spectral range, a high-fidelity simulation of the vehicle has been created with modal content over 500 Hz to assess the pointing stability requirements. Simulation results are presented showing acceleration, shock response spectra, and line-of-sight (LOS) responses for various disturbances from 0 to 512 Hz. Simulation results demonstrate excellent performance relative to the pointing and pointing stability requirements, with LOS jitter for the isolated instrument platform of approximately 1 micro-rad. Attitude and attitude rate knowledge are provided directly to the instrument with an accuracy defined by the integrated rate error requirements. The data are used internally for motion compensation. The final piece of the INR performance is orbit knowledge, which GOES-R achieves with GPS navigation. Performance results are shown demonstrating compliance with the 50–75 m orbit position accuracy requirements. As presented in this paper, the GN&C performance supports the challenging mission objectives of GOES-R.

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Acknowledgments

This work was performed at Lockheed Martin Space Systems, under NASA contract NNG09HR00C, and at the National Aeronautics and Space Administration Goddard Space Flight Center. The authors gratefully acknowledge the many individuals who contributed in various ways through GOES-R program workshops and reviews, and helped developed a better understanding between instrument operations and spacecraft performance.

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  1. Lockheed Martin Space Systems, Denver, CO, USA

    Jim Chapel, Devin Stancliffe, Tim Bevacqua, Stephen Winkler & Brian Clapp

  2. Advanced Solutions Inc., Littleton, CO, USA

    Tim Rood

  3. Emergent Space Technologies, Greenbelt, MD, USA

    David Gaylor

  4. ACS Engineering, Columbia, MD, USA

    Doug Freesland

  5. NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, USA

    Alexander Krimchansky

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This paper is based on a presentation at the 9th International ESA Conference on Guidance, Navigation & Control Systems, June 2–6, 2014, Porto, Portugal.

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Chapel, J., Stancliffe, D., Bevacqua, T. et al. Guidance, navigation, and control performance for the GOES-R spacecraft. CEAS Space J 7, 87–104 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12567-015-0077-1

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