The NASA Artemis II mission represents the first time humans plan to return to the lunar vicinity in over 50 years with a crew traveling to the Moon in the Orion spacecraft on a free return trajectory. This first crewed mission of the Artemis program will evaluate human-rated elements of Orion in preparation to sending astronauts to the lunar surface. The selected free-return cislunar trajectory profile that is reminiscent of the Apollo 8 mission that nominally requires no additional translational burns following the trans-lunar injection (TLI) burn. Due to crew activity, maneuver execution errors, navigation uncertainty, orbit insertion errors, disturbance accelerations, and other system limitations; periodic trajectory corrections burns are necessary to ensure proper entry interface (EI) conditions are satisfied for a safe return to Earth. Robust trajectory optimization techniques are utilized to determine the optimized placements for the Artemis II trajectory correction burns that accounts for the crew schedule, both the primary and backup navigation systems, targeting strategies and burn plan configurations, spacecraft venting, thruster selection, and the integrated GN&C performance.


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    Title :

    Optimized Trajectory Correction Burn Placement for the NASA Artemis II Mission


    Contributors:
    D. Woffinden (author) / R. Eckman (author) / S. Robinson (author)

    Publication date :

    2023


    Size :

    23 pages


    Type of media :

    Report


    Type of material :

    No indication


    Language :

    English




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