We propose an analysis of the recovery strategies for the science mode of the Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA) mission after a meteoroid impacts the spacecraft. The mission consists of a three-spacecraft constellation traveling in a heliocentric orbit, detecting gravitational waves through laser interferometry. To this end, each spacecraft must travel in a free-fall condition in order to reject any possible disturbance and noise affecting the control loop. Nevertheless, if one of the three satellites crosses a meteoroids stream, the collisions can produce attitude perturbations that must be compensated by the control loop. Indeed, in this latter case, the interferometer laser links can be lost. Unfortunately, the link recovery is accomplished through a quite time-consuming re-acquisition maneuver, implying a significant reduction of the science mode time. For this reason, we propose different strategies for a fast recovery of the nominal attitude. The strategies are supported and traded-off by means of extensive simulations, including a Monte Carlo campaign and a worst-case analysis.

Recovery strategies to cope with micrometeoroid impacts in the LISA mission / Novara, Carlo; Virdis, Mario; Pagone, Michele; Ruggiero, Dario; Capello, Elisa; Punta, Elisabetta; Dionisio, Sabrina; Vidano, Simone; Grzymisch, Jonathan; Preda, Valentin. - In: ACTA ASTRONAUTICA. - ISSN 1879-2030. - 211:(2023), pp. 844-864. [10.1016/j.actaastro.2023.06.031]

Recovery strategies to cope with micrometeoroid impacts in the LISA mission

Carlo Novara;Michele Pagone;Dario Ruggiero;Elisa Capello;Elisabetta Punta;
2023

Abstract

We propose an analysis of the recovery strategies for the science mode of the Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA) mission after a meteoroid impacts the spacecraft. The mission consists of a three-spacecraft constellation traveling in a heliocentric orbit, detecting gravitational waves through laser interferometry. To this end, each spacecraft must travel in a free-fall condition in order to reject any possible disturbance and noise affecting the control loop. Nevertheless, if one of the three satellites crosses a meteoroids stream, the collisions can produce attitude perturbations that must be compensated by the control loop. Indeed, in this latter case, the interferometer laser links can be lost. Unfortunately, the link recovery is accomplished through a quite time-consuming re-acquisition maneuver, implying a significant reduction of the science mode time. For this reason, we propose different strategies for a fast recovery of the nominal attitude. The strategies are supported and traded-off by means of extensive simulations, including a Monte Carlo campaign and a worst-case analysis.
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