The NASA Integrated Modeling and Simulation (IM&S) project aims to develop a collaborative engineering system to include distributed analysis, integrated tools, and web-enabled graphics. Engineers on the IM&S team were tasked with applying IM&S capabilities to an orbital mechanics analysis for a lunar mission study. An interactive lunar globe was created to show 7 landing sites, contour lines depicting the energy required to reach a given site, and the optimal lunar orbit orientation to meet the mission constraints. Activation of the lunar globe rotation shows the change of the angle between the landing site latitude and the orbit plane. A heads-up-display was used to embed straightforward interface elements.
Interactive Visualization of Parking Orbits Around the Moon: An X3D Application for a NASA Lunar Mission Study
2006 SIGGRAPH-33rd International Conference and Exhibition on Computer Graphics and Interactive Techniques ; 2006 ; Boston, MA, United States
2006-07-31
Aufsatz (Konferenz)
Keine Angabe
Englisch
Two reference Apollo lunar parking orbits
NTRS | 1965
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