TY - GEN
T1 - Psyche science operations concept
T2 - 15th International Conference on Space Operations, SpaceOps 2018
AU - the Psyche Team
AU - Polanskey, Carol A.
AU - Marsh, Danielle M.
AU - Moore, Robert R.
AU - Park, Ryan S.
AU - Pich, Maria de Soria Santacruz
AU - Wenkert, Daniel
AU - Elkins-Tanton, Linda T.
AU - Williams, David A.
AU - Jaumann, Ralf
AU - Lawrence, David J.
AU - Russell, Christopher T.
N1 - Funding Information:
The research was carried out at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology under a contract with the National Aeronautics and Space Administration. The authors would like to thank the members of the Psyche proposal team and the current development team for their contribution to this paper. The authors would also like to thank NASA’s Planetary Science Division, NASA’s Discovery Program Office, and JPL’s Solar System Exploration Program Office for their support of this work.
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PY - 2018
Y1 - 2018
N2 - In January 2017, the Psyche mission concept was selected as the 14th in NASA’s Discovery Program. The mission would explore the unique metallic asteroid, (16) Psyche, believed to be the exposed core of a larger planetesimal that was stripped of its rocky mantle through multiple collisions during the early formation of the solar system. While the scientific goals of the Psyche mission concept are novel, the approach to science and mission operations is adapted from the earlier Dawn mission. Psyche shares two major attributes with Dawn, also Discovery class, that makes Dawn an obvious template. Both missions orbit massive bodies in the main asteroid belt with previously unmeasured gravity fields, and both utilize solar electric propulsion. The Dawn operations concept was developed over many years, coming to completion while the spacecraft was en route to the first target, protoplanet (4) Vesta. Because these concepts were demonstrated in flight, the Psyche team was able to reuse them to realize a plan of similar fidelity during the first phase of proposal development. Understanding the operations concept to this level of detail during mission formulation reduces the implementation risk of the Psyche mission.
AB - In January 2017, the Psyche mission concept was selected as the 14th in NASA’s Discovery Program. The mission would explore the unique metallic asteroid, (16) Psyche, believed to be the exposed core of a larger planetesimal that was stripped of its rocky mantle through multiple collisions during the early formation of the solar system. While the scientific goals of the Psyche mission concept are novel, the approach to science and mission operations is adapted from the earlier Dawn mission. Psyche shares two major attributes with Dawn, also Discovery class, that makes Dawn an obvious template. Both missions orbit massive bodies in the main asteroid belt with previously unmeasured gravity fields, and both utilize solar electric propulsion. The Dawn operations concept was developed over many years, coming to completion while the spacecraft was en route to the first target, protoplanet (4) Vesta. Because these concepts were demonstrated in flight, the Psyche team was able to reuse them to realize a plan of similar fidelity during the first phase of proposal development. Understanding the operations concept to this level of detail during mission formulation reduces the implementation risk of the Psyche mission.
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U2 - 10.2514/6.2018-2703
DO - 10.2514/6.2018-2703
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85063628037
SN - 9781624105623
T3 - 15th International Conference on Space Operations, 2018
BT - 15th International Conference on Space Operations, 2018
PB - American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics Inc, AIAA
Y2 - 28 May 2018 through 1 June 2018
ER -