Monday, March 16, 1998

Hipparcos

 1989-062B


The HIPPARCOS (High Precision Parallax Collecting Satellite) mission was a landmark project to obtain accurate positional data on the stars. It carried a special dual Baker-Schmidt astrometric telescope. The satellite was named after Hipparcos of Rhodes ( about 180 to 120 BC?), who made the first known accurate star catalog.

The MAGE 2 apogee motor was intended to place the spacecraft in geostationary orbit; it was to have been stationed at 12 deg W. The satellite consisted of the ABM, the bus module with solar arrays, the PLMA telescope system, and a sunshade structure.

After failure of the apogee motor to fire, the hydrazine propulsion system was used to adjust the orbital period and the mission was redesigned to use the elliptical orbit, using an adjusted orbital period that was a multiple of the 128min scanning period.

The telescope was a 0.29m-primary with a 0.9 deg field of view; the primary detection system had a 38 arcsec diameter field of view. It operated in the 3750-7500A band. The Tycho star mapper had B and V filters.


Hipparcos 
 

DateTimeEventOrbit  

1989 Aug 8  2325:53  Launch by Ariane (V33)  CSG 
  T+0:03 PAP on 
  T+1:06 PAP sep 
  T+2:29 PAL sep 
  T+3:45 St 1 sep 
  T+3:37 St 2 MES 
 2330:39 T+4:46 Fairing  
  T+5:54 St 2 sep 
 2331:43 T+5:50 St 3 MES 
 2343:44  T+17:51 Stage 3 MECO 
 2346:25 T+20:32 TVsat sep 
 2349:  T+23:02 Spelda sep 
 2349:36 T+23:07 Hipparcos sep 
1989 Aug 9  0530? Apo 1 
 1000? Peri 1 
 1600? Apo 2 
 2030? Peri 2 
1989 Aug 10  0200? Apo 3 
 0700? Peri 3 
 1200? Apo 4 over 20W 
1989 Aug 10  1214:00  MAGE ABM failed to fire, Apo 4 
 1730? Peri 4 
 2145  Slew to attitude for Apo 6 attempt 
 2300? Apo 5 
1989 Aug 11  0400? Peri 5 
 0900? Apo 6 
1989 Aug 11 0910  ABM failed on 2nd attempt, Apo 6 
 0915?  Failed attempt 
 0925  Failed attempt 
 101  Attitude for Apo 8 
 1430? Peri 6 
 2000? Apo 7 
1989 Aug 12  0100? Peri 7 
 0600? Apo 8 
 1130? Peri 8 
 1700? Apo 9 
 2200? Peri 9 
1989 Aug 13  0300? Apo 10 over 119E 
 0830? Peri 10 
 1351:00 Apo 11 over 39W; Attempt 3 fails 
 1900? Peri 11 
1989 Aug 13    628.32 221 x 35622 x 7.0 
1989 Aug 14 
 0000? Apo 12 
 0530? Peri 12 
 1000? Apo 13 over 6E 
 1600? Peri 13 
 2030 Apo 14 
1989 Aug 15  0230? Peri 14 
 0700? Apo 15 over 51E 
 1300? Peri 15 
 1700? Apo 16 over 103W 
 2300? Peri 16 
1989 Aug 16  0400? Apo 17 over 96E 
 0930  Peri 17 
 1400  Apo 18 over 58W 
 2000? Peri 18 
1989 Aug 17  0100? Apo 19 over 141E 
 0630? Peri 19 
 1100? Apo 20 over 13W 
1989 Aug 17  1200 Attempt 4 fails over 20W 
 1700? Peri 20 
 2200? Apo 21 over 174W 
1989 Aug 21  1010s  Attempt 5 due 
1989 Aug 22   Attempt 6 due 
1989 Aug 28    627.90 245 x 35577 x 7.0 
1989 Sep 5    627.80 241 x 35576 x 7.0 
1989 Sep 6  1200  Despin from 37 to 30 rpm 
1989 Sep 7  1030:00  Burn 1, raise perigee 98 km  339? x 35580? x 7.0 
1989 Sep 8  0725 Burn 2, raise perigee 102 km  448 x 35580? x 7.0 
1989 Sep 11  0914 Burn 3, working orbit  532 x 35800? x 7.0 
  Despin to 10 rpm 
1989 Sep 12  0502 Solar panels deployed 
1989 Sep 12   Fill-in antenna deployed 
1989 Sep 14  1422:30  Burn 4, orbit adjust  
1989 Sep 18  1352 Final burn 
1989 Sep 19   Hydrazine venting initiated
1989 Sep 29   Hydrazine venting completed 
1989 Sep 23   3-axis stabilized 
1989 Sep 26   Telescope baffles opened 
1989 Nov 1   Scanning acquisition complete 
1989 Nov   Calibrations 
1989 Nov 26   Nominal revised mission begins 
1990 Aug 7    639.23 514 x 35890 x 7.3 
1992 Aug 4  1055AOCS failed 
 1830  Backup AOCS working 
1993 Jun 24   OBC failure
1993 Jul 8   OBC restart attempts 
1993 Aug   Engineering tests 
1993 Aug 13   Spin up to 10rpm 
1993 Aug 15  1600 end of ops 
1996 May 4    637.43 530 x 35782 x 7.1  

Payload:

  • Hipparcos dual astrometric telescope

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