Juno perijoves 2 and 3, October 19 and December 11, 2016 |
Juno perijoves 2 and 3, October 19 and December 11, 2016 |
Oct 26 2016, 04:44 PM
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Junior Member Group: Members Posts: 23 Joined: 13-October 13 Member No.: 7013 |
A lot has happened and it seemed like a good time to start a new post. We will be staying in 53 day orbits until the project has a full understanding of the risks that may or may not be associated with reducing the orbit period to 14 days per our previous plan.
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Dec 18 2016, 06:32 PM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 2346 Joined: 7-December 12 Member No.: 6780 |
I was just looking for a simple solution to adjust for possible relativistic effects regarding spacecraft rotation. Since Juno's trajectory isn't an inertial system, but accelerated in a Newtonian understanding, we get into GR. I'd think, that this is implicite in SPICE by Ephemeris time (ET) - UT transformations.
I've been considering, that Juno's time-dilated rotation by GR might be equivalent to an offset by light travel time. But discussing this -- as M.Caplinger says -- would be an extra thread. Since I can't be sure yet, to which degree relativistic effects play a role, and how complicated those considerations might become, I decided to adjust rotational offsets manually in a first step. Edit: After these adjustments, the fitting looks better: Maybe worth to create an animation (video) with black background and interpolated frames. |
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