Astrogator
An astrogator performs the task of astrogation (a portmanteau of astronomical navigation), is the fictional navigation of spacecraft in interplanetary or interstellar travel.[1] The term was first used by science fiction writers in the first half of the 20th century.[citation needed] It was coined during the golden age of science fiction. According to Brave New Words: The Oxford Dictionary of Science Fiction it was coined by 1935 and used in Stanley G. Weinbaum[2] in Planet of Doubt (Astounding Stories Oct 108/1), referenced by Hugo Gernsback contemporaneously,[3] and notably used in Robert Heinlein 1953 novel, Starman Jones.[4]
The term may refer to a crew member, job role or a piece of technology, as in Star Trek: The Original Series, where the astrogator was located on the console between Sulu and Chekov,[5] and in Lost In Space, where the control deck of Jupiter II is dominated by a central astrogation table.[6]
It has crossed into mainstream usage, for example the The Astrogator's Guild website run by NASA aerodynamicists[7] and a navigation module for Satellite Tool Kit (STK).[8][4]
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References[edit]
- ↑ "Astrogation",Oxford English Dictionary
- ↑ Brave new words. 1953. ISBN 978-0-19-530567-8. Search this book on
- ↑ Westfahl, Gary (2007-06-19). Hugo Gernsback and the Century of Science Fiction. McFarland. ISBN 978-0-7864-3079-6. Search this book on
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 McNeil, Linda M.; Kelso, T. S. (2013-11-11). Spatial Temporal Information Systems: An Ontological Approach using STK. CRC Press. ISBN 978-1-4665-0049-5. Search this book on
- ↑ Robinson, Ben; Riley, Marcus; Okuda, Michael (2010-11-02). Star Trek: U.S.S. Enterprise Haynes Manual. Simon and Schuster. ISBN 978-1-4516-2129-7. Search this book on
- ↑ Mera, Miguel; Sadoff, Ronald; Winters, Ben (2017-05-25). The Routledge Companion to Screen Music and Sound. Taylor & Francis. ISBN 978-1-317-39898-1. Search this book on
- ↑ Kovo, Yael (2017-03-03). "Space Mission Design Tools". NASA. Retrieved 2019-11-22.
- ↑ Liu, Y.; Qian, Y.; Jing, W. (July 2019). "Orbit Keeping Control Strategy Design for the Quasi-period Orbit with STK/Astrogator". 2019 Chinese Control Conference (CCC): 4130–4135. doi:10.23919/ChiCC.2019.8866502. ISBN 978-9-8815-6397-2.
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