Mission Experience for Spinning Spacecraft Attitude Filtering with Spin Parameters

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2019-06-21

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Söken, Halil Ersin
Asamura, Kazushi
Nakamura, Yosuke
Takashima, Takeshi
Shinohara, Iku

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JAXA's Arase Spacecraft, which is formerly known as Exploration of Energization and Radiation in Geospace (ERG), was launched on 20 December 2016 and has been in orbit for almost 3 years. The spacecraft is spin-stabilized. Its mission is exploring how relativistic electrons in the radiation belts are generated during space storms. Two on-ground attitude determination algorithms are used for the mission: a conventional simple algorithm that inherits from old missions and an advanced algorithm that is newly designed. The core of the advanced attitude determination algorithm is an Unscented Kalman Filter (UKF), specifically designed for on-ground attitude estimation for spinning spacecraft. In this algorithm, which is called SpinUKF, the attitude of the spacecraft is represented using a set of spin parameters. These parameters consist of the spin-axis orientation unit vector in the inertial frame and the spin phase angle. Focus of this study is the recent results we had for attitude estimation of Arase using the SpinUKF. Discussions include the encountered challenges and the suggested solutions.

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https://archive.ists.or.jp/upload_pdf/2019-d-056.pdf
https://hdl.handle.net/11511/77124

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32nd International Symposium on Space Technology and Science, (17 - 21 Haziran 2019)

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H. E. Söken, K. Asamura, Y. Nakamura, T. Takashima, and I. Shinohara, “Mission Experience for Spinning Spacecraft Attitude Filtering with Spin Parameters,” presented at the 32nd International Symposium on Space Technology and Science, (17 - 21 Haziran 2019), Fukui, Japonya, 2019, Accessed: 00, 2021. [Online]. Available: https://archive.ists.or.jp/upload_pdf/2019-d-056.pdf.