SMART-1 Status: Ongoing Lunar Operations
24 Jan 2006 16:36 Report for period 19 December 2005 to 15 January 2006
Smart-1 operation has been nominal during the Christmas period. The push-broom operations were terminated just before Christmas giving the pace for resuming routine payload operations. The only noticeable event was a glitch in the star tracker software that did not have any impact on operations.
The Integral/XMM transponder has been used to carry out tone ranging radio frequency compatibility tests aiming at two Smart-1 tracking campaigns for the cross support with the Chinese CLTC and the Indian ISRO during 2006.
Future Activities
Future activities are focused on the following: End of mission preparation and impact on the Moon selection Finalisation of the tone ranging compatibility tests and validation using ESA stations
Orbital Information
| SMART-1 OD396 Close to Apolune 1790 Elements WRT Moon and its equator of date | |
| Pericentre Distance (km) | 2380.022541 |
| Apocentre Distance (km) | 4456.635279 |
| Semi Major Axis (km) | 3418.328910 |
| Eccentricity | 0.303747 |
| Inclination (°) | 90.116350 |
| Ascending Node (°) | 238.470099 |
| Argument of Pericentre (°) | 261.884063 |
| True Anomaly (°) | 179.999996 |
| Osculating Orbital Period (h) | 4.981682 |
The changes since apolune 1756 as follows: semi-major axis +0.5 km perilune height +2.8 km apolune height -1.8 km orbital period +0.1 min
AOCS
Startracker Performance The plot below shows the startracker CCD temperatures for the period covered by this report. Table As expected CHU2 has suffered from high temperatures during the pushbroom operations that ended on 20 December 2005.
Temperature drop in startracker unit 2 as push-broom operations finish
Electric Propulsion, Power and Thermal
Power The Power Subsystem has performed very well during the reporting period. The last eclipse was a moon penumbra from 11:48:28 to 11:46:16 UTC on the 24 December 2005, with the batteries performing nominally.
The eclipse season is scheduled to start again on the 15 March 2006 at 00:15:15 UTC, with an earth penumbra of a duration of 01:17:41 hours.
Electric Propulsion EP remained off after ending the re-boost phase.
Thermal The Thermal Subsystem has performed very well during the reporting period. The last Push-Broom manoeuvre was on the 19 December 2005 from 17:41:07 to 18:27:07, with the thermal mode High to behave as Low to keep the temperatures of the +Y/-Y panels lower to avoid as much as possible start tracker invalidations.
The next Push-Broom period is scheduled to start again around April 2006, when the sun incidence on the +Y/-Y panels during Push-Broom is bellow 30 degrees. This Push-Broom period is planned to be about 3 months long, as was the last one.
