Ballistics and navigation support for the Venera-D missionV. A. Shishov1, V. A. Stepaniants1,

A. G. Tuchin1, S. M. Lavrenov2

(1)Keldysh Institute of Applied Mathematics, Russian Academy of Sciences,

(2)Moscow State Institute of Electronics and Mathematics (Technical University)

Moscow 2012

Comparison of probable start windows by summary costs of characteristic velocities

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Arriving date Flight durance (days)DepartureVelocity(km/sec)

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Velocity sum(km/sec)

11.01.2020 25.07.2020 196 4.677 3.483 8.160

28.10.2021 06.04.2022 160 2.800 4.760 7.560

27.05.2023 27.10.2023 153 2.573 3.695 6.268

07.12.2024 15.05.2025 159 3.295 2.686 5.981

08.06.2026 08.12.2026 183 3.857 2.989 6.846

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Isolines of the total characteristic velocities for the 2020 start window

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Optimal date to start11.01.2020Transition duration196 days

Dates are on the axis of abscissa Flight durations are on axis of the ordinates (in days)

Main ballistics tasks to be solved during the Venera-D mission

• Pointing for the on-Earth tracking stations

• Trajectory measurement raw processing

• Determination and forecast of the SC motion parameters

• Maneuver and adjustment calculations

• Data calculations for the on-board control system

• Scientific program providing

Flight trajectory adjustments

• Insertion into transfer orbit after motion on the orbit around the Earth

• The first correction is performed on the seventh day of the flight.

• The second correction is performed four days prior to the Venus approach. After performing the second correction and the DM separation the SC withdrawal maneuver is performed.

• The third motion correction of the SC is implemented one day before approaching for the trim purpose.

• The capture maneuver is performed at the outgoing hyperbola pericenter and the SC goes to the high eccentricity orbit around Venus.

Maneouver and correction execution errors

1. Errors of the flight path transfer impulse (the first) performance are 0.2% by value and 0.7° by direction.

2. Errors of the correction impulses (the second etc.) and the withdrawal maneouver are 0.5 m/sec by value and 0.7° by direction.

Orbital measurements in the project Venera-D carry on

1. up to 2 Mkm distances from tracking stations in Baikonur and Bear Lakes with Spectr-X facilities (antenna THA-57,diameter=12.5m);

2. at distances more than 1.5 Mkm from tracking stations in Ussuriisk(antenna P-2500, diameter=70 m) and Bear Lakes (antenna

TNA-1500, diameter=64 m) equipped with large radars.Radiated frequency: 7.1–7.2 GHertz .

On-board frequency conversion coefficient: 880/749.

Zone of unambiguous measurement of the range (in the slant distance sense): 1023 km.

Measurement errors: 20 m by range, 0.2 mm/sec by range rate.

Flight trajectory measurement program• On the path part prior to the first correction the measurements

are carried on daily, four tracking stations being on duty up to distances 2 Mkm, two ones being on service after this threshold.

• On the path part after the first correction the measurements are carried on every four days, two tracking stations in the Bear Lakes and Ussuriisk being at work.

• The measurements are carried on by two tracking stations daily during two weeks prior to the second correction fulfillment.

• And after second correction two tracking stations do measurements one time weekly.

The scheme of the Descent Module (DM) delivery

• One should provide with the prescript Venus atmosphere enter angle, illumination constraints and radio vision conditions from the on-ground tracking stations as well.

• These circumstances are ensured by two corrections on the flight trajectory: namely on the seventh day of flight and the four days prior to entering Venus atmosphere.

•The DM escapes the main SC and does autonomous flight after the second correction.

•The Orbital Apparatus (OA) performs the withdrawal maneuver and then the trim maneuver to transfer at the outgoing hyperbola with given inclination (90º) and given pericenter height (250 km) where it get the braking impulse to go on the elliptical orbit around Venus. With all that the ОА should reach the minimum distance up to Venus the four hours earlier than the DM would reach its atmosphere.

•In entering the Venus atmosphere the DM has to connect with the OA which would retransmit the telemetrical flow to the Earth.

The scheme of the Descent Module (DM) delivery

Ballistics destination areas on the Venus surface in 2020 – 2026 years

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Dependence of angles the Earth-Decent Module-Venus (E-L-V) and the Sun-Decent Module-Venus (S-L-V)

from landing longitudes for 2020 year

The period options for the main SC orbits andfor the subsattellite orbits

№The subsattellite orbit period,

(hours)The main SC orbit period

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1 48 24

2 24 48

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Option 1. The main SC orbit elements after setting in

the Venus orbit Parameter Value

Semiaxis ( tkm) 62.633609

Eccentricities 0.899

Inclination ( degrees) 90.0

Longitude of the ascending node (degrees) 240.2

Argument of the pericenter (degrees) 334.4

Mean motion (n) rad/tsec 0.03636

Period (hours) 48.0

Distance at the pericenter (tkm) 6.301876

Height at the pericenter (km) 249.983

Distance at apocenter (tkm) 118.965344

Height at apocenter (km) 112913.450640

Latitude of the under-satellite point (degrees) –25.578

Longitude of the under-satellite point (degrees) 240.258

Energy costs of the SC to maneuver on the Venus satellite orbits (VSO)

• The transition impulse module to the VSO is equal to 648 m/sec.

• The transition impulse module from the two days orbit period to the one day orbit period is equal to 158 m/sec.

The SC orbit motion determination on the VSO

Range and range rate measurements

The Earth Trackingstation

Line of sight

Possible change of the SC apocenter

Enumeration of error sources for the SC motion and the count model

• Insufficient accuracy for the Venus gravity field taken into account for fast operative work ; the NASA RS-SHTJV360 gravity model has order 360x360;

• Availability of the unaccounted micro-accelerations because of attitude engine burns;

• Inaccurate accounting of the solar radiation pressure influence

• Inexactness in the relative motion of Venus to the Earth

Conclusions

1. With optimizing mission energy costs we get that the Decent Module area location on Venus turned out to be off direct radiovision from the Earth and isn’t illuminated by the Sun. Hence telemetry from Decent Module has to communicate through the Orbital Craft and the Decent Module performance capacity has to maintain by inner source.2. Changing in the ballistics scheme to ensure the sharp navigation calls for additional energy costs.3. It is advisable to construct the task of joint determination for motion parameters of the SC, Venus and the Earth within a single dynamical model.