GPS Attitude Determination and Navigation Flight Experiment
1995
A GPS attitude and navigation receiver operated
successfully in space as a flight experiment on the
Daimler-Benz Aerospace (DASA) CRISTA-SPAS free
flying satellite. This flight resulted in the first space
operation of GPS derived attitude determination. The
satellite was launched from, separated and subsequently
recovered by Space Shuttle Atlantis, STS 66,
November 3-14, 1994. The vehicle operated at a
distance of several kilometers from the Shuttle during
the 11 day mission. The spacecraft attitude was
maintained with a stellar-inertial attitude determination
system using mass expulsion actuators for control to
point the Crista telescope at a pre designated point on
the Earth’s limb. The GPS TANS Vector receiver
navigated and determined three axes attitude with
respect to an antenna reference frame fixed to the
CRISTA-SPAS vehicle but not aligned to it. An
alignment transformation between the GPS antenna
system and the spacecraft was derived post flight. The
GPS receiver operated satisfactorily during the flight.
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