Flight software operation of the Hubble Space Telescope fine guidance sensorThe Hubble Space Telescope (HST) is to carry five major scientific instruments to collect imagery, spectrographic, and photometric astronomical data. The Pointing Control System is designed to achieve pointing accuracies and line of sight jitter levels an order of magnitude less than can be achieved with ground mounted telescopes. This paper describes the operation of the pointing control system flight software in targeting a celestial object in a science instrument aperture and in performing the coordinate transformations necessary for commanding the fine guidance sensor and determining the attitude-error corrections.
Document ID
19890037114
Acquisition Source
Legacy CDMS
Document Type
Conference Paper
Authors
Rodden, J. J. (Lockheed Missiles and Space Co. Sunnyvale, CA, United States)
Dougherty, H. J. (Lockheed Missiles and Space Co. Sunnyvale, CA, United States)
Cormier, D. J. (Lockheed Missiles and Space Co., Inc. Sunnyvale, CA, United States)
Date Acquired
August 14, 2013
Publication Date
January 1, 1988
Subject Category
Spacecraft Instrumentation
Meeting Information
Meeting: Triennial World Congress of IFAC
Location: Munich
Country: Germany
Start Date: July 27, 1987
End Date: July 31, 1987
Sponsors: IFAC, Intl. Federation for Information Processing, Intl. Assoc. for Mathematics and Computer Simulation