Monday, December 24, 2012

Stardust

 1999-003A


The fourth Discovery mission, Stardust was launched in Feb 1999. The Lockheed-Martin Denver built spacecraft (LM SpaceProbe bus) will fly past at 6.1 km/s in Jan 2004 100 km from 81P/Wild 2 and recover cometary material using an aerogel substance. The encounter will take place 1.9 AU from the Sun. A return capsule would land on a lake bed in Utah in Jan 2006.

Stardust uses Denver's Space Probe bus with a return vehicle, the Sample Reentry Capsule (SRC). The SRC is passive, and the Stardust bus orients it for entry before separating. The navigation camera is a Voyager spare. Probe mass is 385 kg full including the 46 kg 0.50m high 0.81m dia SRC and 85 kg of hydrazine.

Craft is 1.7m high 0.66 x 0.66m dia 4.8m array span.

In 2000 the Stardust nav camera developed problems with fogging; a series of heating cycles cleared up the problem well enough for navigation at the crucial Jan 2001 flyby of Earth.

In 2002 it flew past Annefrank, which was used as an engineering test of encounter procedures.

The 2004 comet encounter saw Stardust fly directly through at least two jets emanating from the nucleus; it passed about 250 km from the nucleus.

Stardust approaches Earth from a 0.98 x 2.68 AU x 3.6 deg orbt. The divert burn lowers the final aphelion, and puts it onto a 0.92 x 1.70 AU x 1.9 deg orbit.

Target landing location was 113 27W 40 19N. Actual landing location was 113 31 20W 40 22 06N.

Star 37FM is 1147 kg full 74 kg burnout with ISP 289.8s.


Stardust 
 

DateTimeEventOrbit  

1999 Feb 7 2104:15  Launch by Delta 7426  CC LC17A 
  T+1:03 SRM 1-4 burnout 
  T+1:06 SRM jettison 22 km 
  T+4:24 MECO 115 km  
  T+4:32 Stage 1 sep  
  T+4:37 SES-1 123 km  -4200 x 170 ?  
  T+4:44 Fairing sep 127 km  -4200 x 175 ? 
 2124:12 T+9:57 SECO-1  88.20 185 x 189 x 28.5 
 2125:49  Injection reference time 
 2126:04 T+21:49 SES-2 
 2127:49 T+23:34 SECO-2  167.36 178 x 7185 x 28.5 
 2128:42 T+24:27 Stage 2 sep 
 2129:19 T+25:04 TES over 1.08W 1.38S 
 2130:24 T+26:09 TECO 224 km  224 x -43632 x 28.5  
 2131:34  T+27:19 Star 37FM sep 
 2131:40?  Yo weight sep 
  T+1:23:20 SES-3 depletion 
  T+1:23:29 SECO-3 depletion  294 x 6818 x 22.5 
1999 Feb 8  0416  Pass EL1:4 
1999 Feb 11  0353  Depart Earth sphere 1.497Mkm 
1999 Feb   orbital period 2.0 yr 
1999 May   SRC latches open 
1999 Dec   SRC backshell closed 
1999 Dec 28   TCM-A 11m/s 
2000 Jan 18 1900s DSM-1A 30min 
2000 Jan 20  1400s DSM-1B  
2000 Jan 22  1800s  DSM-1C, total 0.17km/s 
2000 Feb 22   Collector deploy,ISM collection begins 
2000 Mar   Aphelion, DSM 
2000 May 1  ISM collection ends, retract collector 
2000 May 24   TCM-3 (DSM cleanup) 72s, 1.9m/s 
2000 Nov 28   TCM-4 (EGA-1) 
2001 Jan 5  1700s TCM-5 (EGA-2)  0.956 x 2.216 AU x 0.0  
2001 Jan 12  2041  Enter Earth sphere 1.5Mkm 
2001 Jan 15  1113  Earth flyby 6008 km 
2001 Jan 16  0200? Moon flyby 98000 km 
2001 Jan 15   Orbital period 2.5yr  0.983 x 2.825 AU x 3.7 
2001 Jan 18  0154  Depart Earth sphere 
2001 Mar 16   Begin CIDA collection period 2 
2001 Aug 8  s  End CIDA period 2 
2002 Jan 18  2156  TCM-7 (DSM-2) 111s 2.6m/s 
2002 Aug 5   ISM collection begins 
2002 Oct 9   TCM 
2002 Nov 2  0450  Flyby (5535) Annefrank at 3079 km 
2002 Dec 9   ISM collection ends 
2003 Jun 17   DSM-3A 36.2m/s 25min  
2003 Jun 18  2100  DSM-3B 34.4m/s 1456s burn 6 kg. 
Jun 23  2200  EMD-1 Entry Maneuver Demo, 0.25m/s 
Jun 25  2200  EMD-2 
Jun 30  1400  EMD-3 
2003 Jul 16   TCM-9 1.0m/s 53s 
2003 Dec 3   TCM-10 118s 2.6m/s 
2003 Dec 23  TCM-11 3.2m/s 
2003 Dec 31   TCM-12 3.2m/s  
2004 Jan 2 1720  First nav image 
 1841  Range 14000 km, in coma, rate 6.1 km/s 
 1851  Range 10300 km? 
 1900  Range 7000 km? 
 1910  Range 3300 km? 
 1918:55 Flyby C/A per Dec 30 release 
 1923:35TDB  Enter comet sphere 
 1922  Flyby C/A per Jan 2 broadcast 
 1922:36UTC 81P/Wild 2 flyby, 236 km at 1.86AU, 6.1km/s 

 

1925:40TDB  Depart comet sphere 
2004 Feb 2  DSM-4  
2005 Nov 16   TCM-17 4.2m/s 
2006 Jan 5  1800  TCM-18 2.4m/s 107s 0.39kg 
2006 Jan 12  1858  Enter Earth sphere (1.5Mkm) 
2006 Jan 13  1900  Stardust in Earth SOE  290 x -32388 x 41.43  
2006 Jan 14 0453  TCM-19 1.3m/s 58s 
 1830  Stardust passes lunar orbit  43 x -32128 x 42.00 
2006 Jan 15 0557:05  E-4hr H=111000 km, capsule sep,  22 x -32101 x 42.05  
 0618TDB?  Bus divert burn to solar orbit, 104000 km  259 x -32354 x 41.7  
 0837  SRC passes GEO 
 0839  Bus passes GEO  
 0900  SRC at 25730 km  
 0930  SRC at 14102 km, 9.26 km/s 
 0956  SRC at 400 km (Hor) 
 0956:40  Entry 12.60 km/s at 125 km -8.2 deg 
 0957  SRC at 225 km (Hor) 
 0958  SRC at 101 km (Hor) 
  Or, 12.8 km/s  
  Or, 12.94 km/s at 125 km  18 x -32105 x 42.0 
 0957:32  E+0:52s 61 km, peak heating 3000K 
 0958:36  E+1:56s 3G switch, timer on  
 0958:52  E+2:12 H=32km drogue 0.83m dia 
 0959:40  E+3:00 H=24 km, descent over UTTR 
 1000  Bus perigee at 258 km  258 x -32355 x 41.67  
 1000:40  E+4:00 H=17 km, in UTTR airspace 
 1004:42  E+8:02s H=3 km main para 
 1010  E+14:38 Landing at Utah TTR at 4.5m/s, 1.2km MSL 
2006 Jan 16  0130  Bus lunar orbit outbound  294 x -32383 x 41.6  
2006 Jan 17  0100  Bus leaves SOE  0.92 x 1.70 AU x 1.9 
2006 Jan 18  0058  Bus leaves Earth sphere (1.496E8) 
2006 Jan 30  0000 Bus in hibernation mode 
2006 Mar 10    547.94 0.9221 x 1.6988AU x 1.94 
2007 Jul   Begin NeXT mission (New Exploration of Tempel-1) 
2007 Oct 10  1500  TMC-21 DSM, 3.57 m/s 
2008 Jan 1    548.11d 0.9222 x 1.6992 AU x 1.94 
2008 Jun 25   TCM-22 1.82m/s   
2008 Nov 18   TCM-23 
2009 Jan 5   TCM-24 7s 0.23m/s 
2009 Jan 12  0420  Range to Earth 1.5Mkm 
 0440  Enter Earth sphere 
2009 Jan 13  0450  Range to Earth 0.9Mkm 
 TCM-25 
2009 Jan 14   Flyby Earth at 9200 km  
 1934  Flyby  9148 x -41105 x 108.14 
2009 Jan 16  1000  Range to Earth 0.9Mkm 
2009 Jan 17  1030  Leave Earth sphere 
 1100  Range to Earth 1.5 Mkm 
2009 Mar 12    572.47d 0.9708 x 1.7278 AU x 8.47 
2010 Feb 10    572.68d 0.9713AU x 1.7279AU x 8.46 
2010 Feb 17  2221  TCM 28 22:53 24m/s 
2010 Mar 1    572.54d 0.9708AU x 1.7280AU x 8.46 
2011 Jan 31  2100  TCM 31 2.6m/s 130s 
2011 Feb 7   TCM 32 0.6m/s 
2011 Feb 12   TCM 33 1m/s 
2011 Feb 15  0439:32TDB Enter 9P Hill sphere 
2011 Feb 15   Flyby 9P/Tempel-1 Rsun=1.547AU 
 0440:08TDB  178 km flyby 
 0440:44TDB Depart 9P Hill sphere 
2011 Mar 24  2300  Depletion burn 146s 
2011 Mar 24  2333  Transmitter off 

Payload:

  • Sample Reentry Capsule, 0.8m dia 46 kg

  • CIDA Comet and Interstellar Dust Analyser (Particle Impact Analyser)

  • Dust flux monitor

  • Navigation and imaging camera

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