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Cassini Attitude Control Flight Software: from Development to In-Flight Operation

Brown, Jay
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The Cassini Attitude and Articulation Control Subsystem (AACS) Flight Software (FSW) has achieved its intended design goals by successfully guiding and controlling the Cassini-Huygens planetary mission to Saturn and its moons. This paper describes an overview of AACS FSW details from early design, development, implementation, and test to its fruition of operating and maintaining spacecraft control over an eleven year prime mission. Starting from phases of FSW development, topics expand to FSW development methodology, achievements utilizing in-flight autonomy, and summarize lessons learned during flight operations which can be useful to FSW in current and future spacecraft missions.

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Brown, Jay. 2008-08-18. Cassini Attitude Control Flight Software: from Development to In-Flight Operation. https://ntrs.nasa.gov/citations/20150014714

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