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A visual display aid for orbital maneuvering: Experimental Evaluation (1993)
An interactive proximity operations planning system, which allows on-site planning of fuel-efficient multiburn manuvers in a potential multispacecraft environment, has been experimentally evaluated. An experiment has been carried out in which nonastronaut operators with brief initial training were required to plan a trajectory to retrieve an object accidentally seperated from a dual-keel Space Station, for a variety of different orbital situations. The experiments have shown that these operators were able to plan workable trajectories, satisfying a number of operational constraints. Fuel use and planning time were strongly correlated, both with angle at which the object was seperated and with the existence of spatial constraints. Planning behavior was found to be strongly operator-dependent. This finding calls for the need for standardizing planning strategies through operator training or the use of semiautomated planning schemes.
fuel-efficient, interactive proximit, orbital maneuvering, planning, trajectories, visual display
Journal of Guidance, Control and Dynamis, 16, 1, 145-150
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