TY - GEN
T1 - Mission design for the Interstellar Boundary Explorer (IBEX) mission
AU - Reno, Michelle
AU - Tyler, Ryan
AU - Schwadron, Nathan
AU - McComas, Dave
N1 - Copyright:
Copyright 2011 Elsevier B.V., All rights reserved.
PY - 2009
Y1 - 2009
N2 - The Interstellar Boundary Explorer mission was successfully launched on October 19th, 2008. This mission was achieved with a small octagonal spacecraft, launched on a Pegasus rocket. The IBEX spacecraft is a sun-pointed spinner with 2 narrow angle FOV sensors specialized to detect neutral atoms from the solar system's outer boundaries and galactic medium. IBEX used a STAR-27 solid rocket motor and its own onboard propulsion system to boost itself into a high altitude cislunar orbit. The orbit achieved is a high eccentricity orbit, approximately 48 Re apogee by 20,000 Km radius perigee. The authors describe the orbit, attitude, operational, and hardware selections used to meet the science objectives.
AB - The Interstellar Boundary Explorer mission was successfully launched on October 19th, 2008. This mission was achieved with a small octagonal spacecraft, launched on a Pegasus rocket. The IBEX spacecraft is a sun-pointed spinner with 2 narrow angle FOV sensors specialized to detect neutral atoms from the solar system's outer boundaries and galactic medium. IBEX used a STAR-27 solid rocket motor and its own onboard propulsion system to boost itself into a high altitude cislunar orbit. The orbit achieved is a high eccentricity orbit, approximately 48 Re apogee by 20,000 Km radius perigee. The authors describe the orbit, attitude, operational, and hardware selections used to meet the science objectives.
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M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:80053412960
SN - 9780877035541
T3 - Advances in the Astronautical Sciences
SP - 479
EP - 483
BT - Spaceflight Mechanics 2009 - Advances in the Astronautical Sciences
T2 - 19th AAS/AIAA Space Flight Mechanics Meeting
Y2 - 8 February 2009 through 12 February 2009
ER -