Magazine Article

Spacecraft Station-Keeping Trajectory and Mission Design Tools

TBMG-5665

09/01/2009

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Two tools were developed for designing station-keeping trajectories and estimating delta-v requirements for designing missions to a small body such as a comet or asteroid. This innovation uses NPOPT, a non-sparse, general-purpose sequential quadratic programming (SQP) optimizer and the Two-Level Differential Corrector (T-LDC) in LTool (Libration point mission design Tool) to design three kinds of station-keeping scripts: vertical hovering, horizontal hovering, and orbiting.

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"Spacecraft Station-Keeping Trajectory and Mission Design Tools," Mobility Engineering, September 1, 2009.
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Sep 1, 2009
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TBMG-5665
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Magazine Article
Language
English