Spacecraft Optical Navigation

William M. Owen (California Institute of Technology California, USA)

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John Wiley & Sons Inc
02 October 2024

Mechanical engineering & materials

Series: JPL Deep-Space Communications and Navigation Series

UNIQUE RESOURCE EXPLORING HOW SPACECRAFT IMAGERY PROVIDES PROFESSIONALS WITH ACCURATE ESTIMATES OF SPACECRAFT TRAJECTORY, WITH REAL-WORLD EXAMPLES AND DETAILED ILLUSTRATIONS

Spacecraft Optical Navigation provides detailed information on the planning and analysis of spacecraft imagery to help determine the trajectory of a spacecraft. The author, an experienced engineer within the field, addresses the entirety of celestial targets and explains how a spacecraft captures their imagery.

Aimed at professionals within spacecraft navigation, this book provides an extensive introduction and explains the history of optical navigation, reviewing a range of optical methods and presents real world examples throughout. With the use of mathematics, this book discusses everything from the orbits, sizes, and shapes of the bodies being imaged, to the location and properties of salient features on their surfaces.

Specific sample topics covered in Spacecraft Optical Navigation include:

History of various past spacecraft, including Mariner and Viking, Voyager, Galileo, NEAR Shoemaker, and Cassini, and flight hardware, star catalogs, and stereophotoclinometry Cameras, covering the gnomonic projection (and deviations from it), creation of a digital picture, picture flattening, and readout smears Modeling optical navigation observables, covering apparent directions to an object, star, and limbs or terminators, and orientation of cameras Obtaining optical navigation observables, covering centerfinding for stars and resolved and unresolved bodies, and using opnav data in orbit determination

Spacecraft Optical Navigation is an ideal resource for engineers working in spacecraft navigation and optical navigation, to update their knowledge of the technology and use it in their day-to-day. The text will also benefit researchers working with spacecraft, particularly in navigation, and professors and lecturers teaching graduate aerospace courses.

By: William M. Owen (California Institute of Technology California USA)
Imprint: John Wiley & Sons Inc
Country of Publication: United States
ISBN: 9781119904434
ISBN 10: 1119904439
Series: JPL Deep-Space Communications and Navigation Series
Pages: 128
Publication Date: 02 October 2024
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

WILLIAM M. OWEN JR. is an Optical Navigation engineer at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, USA. He has been a member of the technical staff at Jet Propulsion Laboratory since 1979 and has been semi-retired since 2010. He received his PhD in 1990 and is a past member of Division A Fundamental Astronomy, Division F Planetary Systems and Astrobiology, and more.

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Spacecraft Optical Navigation

William M. Owen (California Institute of Technology California, USA)

$207.95

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