MRO Cruise-Phase Midcourse Correction Burns

[Arrowstar]

Hi all,

I was wondering if anyone had any data on the course correction maneuvers that Mars Recon. Orbiter performed on its way to Mars. I'm particularly looking for dates and DeltaV vectors, if they're available. I did some Googling, but there doesn't seem to be anything out there in plain sight.

Any help would be appreciated!

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[Wishbone]

I'm unsure if this can be done quickly from the ground up (at NAIF the kernels for MRO are 70 Gb large, the cruise kernel is 16.6 Mb ftp://naif.jpl.nasa.gov/pub/naif/pds/data/mro-m-spice-6-v1.0/mrosp_1000/data/spk/mro_cruise.bsp ), but the readmes cite an e-mail: [email protected], and I suppose you could ask him about this.

 

[Arrowstar]

Thanks for the tip, I'll take a look at that. I think I may be able to reconstruct the major TCMs just with the navigation data, we'll see.

 

[BrianJ]

Maybe this is useful.....
http://trs-new.jpl.nasa.gov/dspace/bitstream/2014/41275/1/07-3162.pdf

 

[Wishbone]

The MRO NAV team contact: [email protected]

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EDIT: for fun, used SPY.EXE on the MRO cruise kernel. The timing can be gotten from the SAMPLE Acceleration magnitude command (delta V components can be extracted as well - see SPY.UG). TCM-01 is seen around 2005-AUG-27 22:01 (TDB). For TCM-02 I've got to load later portions of text files, and it's d*mn cold here and I'd better run home

 

[Arrowstar]

BrianJ: Thanks, that's great!

Wishbone: Cool, thank you. What is SPY.exe?

 

[Wishbone]

Part of the SPICE toolkit utils. http://naif.jpl.nasa.gov/naif/utilities_PC_Windows_32bit.html