Noel Hitchcock Hughes

Noel Hitchcock Hughes
Lockheed Martin Corporation · Space Systems Company

BS Aerospace Engineering; MSME

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Introduction
Noel Hitchcock Hughes currently works at the Space Systems Company, Lockheed Martin Corporation. Noel does research in Aerospace Engineering. Their current project is 'Odyssey Mars Orbiter'.
Skills and Expertise
Spacecraft Guidance
spacecraft control
Spacecraft Navigation
Spacecraft Dynamics
Quaternions
spacecraft maneuvers

Publications

Publications (4)
Figure 1: Euler Rotation Example: 3-1-2 or xyz Euler Rotation Sequence....
Figure 2: Euler Rotation Axis and Angle 2.3 Direction Cosine Matrix A...
Quaternion to/from Euler Angle of Arbitrary Rotation Sequence & Direction Cosine Matrix Conversion Using Geometric Methods
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  • Jul 2017
While no literature survey can be exhaustive , all methods discovered of converting quaternions to/from Euler angles and Direction Cosine Matrices (DCM) share one characteristic: they define the required result in terms of algebraic expressions of the input elements. These formulations are difficult to debug during implementation, require a differe...
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Figure 1 Gale Crater Topography (Courtesy NASA)  
Figure 6 Spacecraft Rotation Rates during EDL Operations  
Figure 8 Body Rates during EDL Operations  
Figure 13 Odyssey -Curiosity UHF Signal  
AAS 13-125 ODYSSEY PREPARATIONS FOR AND ROLE IN CURIOSITY ENTRY DESCENT AND LANDING WITH FOCUS ON ATTITUDE SELECTION
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  • Feb 2013
The Odyssey Mars Orbiter provided real time bent pipe data relay of data to Earth from the Mars Science Laboratory, Curiosity, during the Entry, Descent and Landing (EDL) phase of the mission. In this paper we will describe the motivation for having real time and non-real time relay communication from Curiosity during EDL and the requirements and o...
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Figure 1: Euler Rotation Example: 3-1-2 or xyz Euler Rotation Sequence....
Figure 2: Euler Rotation Axis and Angle 2.3 Direction Cosine Matrix A...
Quaternion to Euler Angle Conversion for Arbitrary Rotation Sequence Using Geometric Methods
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4 3 2 1 q q q q R = operator: rotation of vector by a quaternion vi = unit vector along the i th Euler rotation axis vi n = unit vector along the i n th Euler rotation axis V = a general 3 component vector; if used in quaternion multiplication, augmented with a fourth element equal to zero
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