Mission Operations · 3

Flight Dynamics & Navigation

Determining and controlling where a spacecraft is and where it is going — orbit determination and navigation operations.

Flight DynamicsOperations function
The discipline of determining and predicting a spacecraft's orbit and attitude, and computing the manoeuvres needed to keep it on its planned trajectory.
Navigation OperationsOperations function
The operational process of guiding a spacecraft to its target — combining orbit determination with manoeuvre design, using the deep-space network's radiometric tracking.
Orbit DeterminationOperations function
Estimating a spacecraft's precise position and velocity from tracking data (ranging, Doppler, and angles) — the input to every manoeuvre and every science observation.

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