Lunar missions benefit from varying the launch azimuth as a function of launch time to allow longer launch windows with minimum performance impacts. This variable azimuth approach allows the vehicle to track the Moon’s apparent motion due to Earth’s rotation. The Space Launch System (SLS) Block 1 vehicle design requires the mission to launch into an elliptical parking orbit to provide sufficient energy to insert Orion into a Trans-Lunar Injection (TLI) orbit. The primary benefit of varying the launch azimuth, and as a result the achieved orbit inclination, allows the SLS Interim Cryogenic Propulsion Stage (ICPS) to perform its TLI burn closer to perigee and take advantage of performing a burn in a location where the burn will optimally raise apogee.


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    Titel :

    Space Launch System Launch Windows and Day of Launch Processes


    Beteiligte:
    A. S. Craig (Autor:in) / N. Ahmad (Autor:in)

    Erscheinungsdatum :

    2020


    Format / Umfang :

    13 pages


    Medientyp :

    Report


    Format :

    Keine Angabe


    Sprache :

    Englisch