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4 <strong>Final</strong><br />

<strong>Report</strong><br />

Table 4.5-3: AOCS 100% pointing requirements<br />

Pointing<br />

Index<br />

Preliminary Values (100%) Remark<br />

APE ±100 μrad Derived to minimise overlap of neighbouring images<br />

PDE 0.5 μrad over 100 ms<br />

1.0 μrad over 100 ms<br />

For VNIR7 channel (panchro)<br />

For other channels<br />

AME ±100 μrad Currently the same value assumed as for APE<br />

4.5.6.3 AOCS sensors and actuators<br />

Given the high performance requirements for Geo-Oculus, only high performance sensors are<br />

considered . The main sensor will be a star tracker (STR) which will be operated together with an<br />

inertial measurement unit (IMU) in a gyro-stellar estimator set-up (GSE). In the GSE the STR data is<br />

combined with the IMU data to benefit from the advantages of both sensors. The STR provides noisy<br />

but stable attitude information and the IMU provides low-noise data which drifts over time. The IMU<br />

cancels the noise from the STR and the STR cancels the drift in the IMU to a large extent. Several<br />

options for STR are available on the European market:<br />

• Sodern Hydra<br />

• Jena Optronik Astro APS<br />

• Galileo AA<br />

Several options also exist for the IMU selection:<br />

• EADS Astrium Astrix 120 HR<br />

• EADS Astrium Astrix 200 GEO<br />

• Northrop Grumman Scalable SIRU<br />

The baseline STR is the Astro APS and the baseline IMU is the Astrix 200 GEO, as these are the<br />

baseline sensors for a reference mission which is similar in many respects. The performance of the<br />

three listed STR are similar and the baseline can easily be changed if necessary. For the IMUs there<br />

is a clear performance difference between the Astrix 120 on one hand and Astrix 200 and SIRU on the<br />

other hand. The performance level of the Astrix 200 and SIRU is necessary to meet the relative<br />

pointing requirements. The SIRU is produced in the US and is subject to ITAR restrictions. It can<br />

therefore not be selected as baseline.<br />

The attitude control and manoeuvre actuator selection has gone through several iterations, and the<br />

current choice stands between using Magnetic Bearing Wheels (MBW) and an Electric Propulsion<br />

System (EPS).<br />

• Rockwell Collins MBW<br />

• EPS system<br />

The Rockwell Collins (RCD) MBW is the only MBW option available in the European market. It is<br />

currently not flight proven but RCD indicates that they will have flight proven models available in 2013.<br />

Thales in Ulm, Germany, is currently developing a HEMPT based EPS system called HEMPT 3050.<br />

This system is much to powerful for fine attitude control and a theoretical, scaled down microHEMPT<br />

thruster has been developed for comparison.<br />

Doc. No: GOC-ASG-RP-002 Page 4-59<br />

Issue: 2<br />

Date: 13.05.2009 Astrium GmbH

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