Spacecraft Station-Keeping Trajectory and Mission Design Tools
TBMG-5665
09/01/2009
- Content
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.
- Citation
- "Spacecraft Station-Keeping Trajectory and Mission Design Tools," Mobility Engineering, September 1, 2009.