The Genesis mission will launch in 2001, sending the spacecraft into a halo orbit about the Sun-Earth L1 point to collect and return solar wind samples to the Earth for analysis in 2003. One of the most constraining aspects of the mission design is the requirement to return to the designated landing site (the Utah Test and Training Range, UTTR) during daylight hours. The ongoing mission design has led the development of a family of solutions that characterize a broad range of conditions at Earth entry. Characterizing this family provides insight into the possible existence of additional trajectories while also helping to narrow the search space by indicating where additional solutions are unlikely to exist; this contributes to a more efficient utilization of mission design resources.
Genesis Trajectory Design
2000
6 pages
Report
Keine Angabe
Englisch
Astronautics , Mission planning , Solar wind , Landing sites , Genesis mission , Trajectories , Sun , Launching , Halos , Education , Daytime , Atmospheric entry
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