The Advanced Concepts Office design team performed several analyses and trades in support of orbit selection for the proposed Lynx mission, an x-ray observatory being submitted to the Astro2020 Decadal Survey. Though the descriptions in this Technical Memorandum (TM) focus on the Lynx mission, the approach and process for selecting the final orbit is applicable to a variety of proposed science and exploration missions. To select the best orbit for the Lynx science, mission designers assembled a team of subsystem and discipline experts, in addition to mission analysts, to evaluate several candidate orbits. These discipline experts included members of the science and instrument team, power and avionics, thermal, propulsion, and environments. The goal was to clearly show the benefits and weaknesses of each orbit in the trade space and provide sound justification for the final selection. Discipline experts conducted trades and evaluated the results using a variety of methods including engineering judgement, rough estimates, and detailed calculations, and rolled the results into a final grade using a weighted grading method. The orbit options could then be ranked. The principal investigator (PI) for the mission, along with the science team, was given the task of final orbit selection. The result of the trades indicated that a halo orbit about the second Sun-Earth Lagrange point (SE-L2), similar to the planned orbit for the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), was the best choice for the Lynx mission. Details of how the team arrived at this selection are below.


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    Titel :

    Orbit Selection for the Proposed Lynx Observatory Mission


    Beteiligte:
    Hopkins, R. C. (Autor:in) / Schnell, A. R. (Autor:in) / Sutherlin, S. G. (Autor:in) / Suggs, R. J. (Autor:in) / Boswell, T. M. (Autor:in) / Capizzo, P. D. (Autor:in) / Baysinger, M. (Autor:in) / Garcia, J. C. (Autor:in) / Fabisinski, L. L. (Autor:in)

    Erscheinungsdatum :

    2020-01-01


    Medientyp :

    Report


    Format :

    Keine Angabe


    Sprache :

    Englisch




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