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Innovative trajectory designs to meet exploration challenges
| Content Provider | NASA Technical Reports Server (NTRS) |
|---|---|
| Author | Folta, David C. |
| Copyright Year | 2006 |
| Description | This document is a viewgraph presentation of the conference paper. Missions incorporated into NASA's Vision for Space Exploration include many different destinations and regions; are challenging to plan; and need new and innovative trajectory design methods to enable them. By combining proven methods with chaos dynamics, exploration goals that require maximum payload mass or minimum duration can be achieved. The implementation of these innovative methods, such as weak stability boundaries, has altered NASA's approach to meet exploration challenges and is described to show how exploration goals may be met in the next decade. With knowledge that various perturbations play a significant role, the mission designer must rely on both traditional design strategies as well as these innovative methods. Over the past decades, improvements have been made that would at first glance seem dramatic. This paper provides a brief narrative on how a fundamental shift has occurred and how chaos dynamics improve the design of exploration missions with complex constraints. |
| File Size | 13739871 |
| Page Count | 19 |
| File Format | |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | http://archive.org/details/NASA_NTRS_Archive_20070017870 |
| Archival Resource Key | ark:/13960/t73v4jh61 |
| Language | English |
| Publisher Date | 2006-08-18 |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Subject Keyword | Astrodynamics Chaos Orbital Mechanics Spacecraft Trajectories Flight Optimization Space Flight Perturbation Space Exploration Flight Mechanics Trajectory Optimization Ntrs Nasa Technical Reports Server (ntrs) Nasa Technical Reports Server Aerodynamics Aircraft Aerospace Engineering Aerospace Aeronautic Space Science |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |
