3 years ago

# Estimating the thermally induced acceleration of the New Horizons spacecraft.

Orfeu Bertolami, Paulo J. S. Gil, Frederico Francisco, André G. C. Guerra

Residual accelerations due to thermal effects are estimated through a model of the New Horizons spacecraft and a Monte Carlo simulation. We also discuss and estimate the thermal effects on the attitude of the spacecraft. The work is based on a method previously used for the Pioneer and Cassini probes, which solve the Pioneer anomaly problem. The results indicate that after the encounter with Pluto there is a residual acceleration of the order of $10^{-9}~\mathrm{m/s^2}$, and that rotational effects should be difficult, although not impossible, to detect.

Publisher URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/1703.05831

DOI: arXiv:1703.05831v2

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