The work completed to date is comprised of the following: a simple vehicle model representative of the aerospace plane concept in the hypersonic flight regime, fuel-optimal climb profiles for the unconstrained and dynamic pressure constrained cases generated using a reduced order dynamic model, an analytic switching condition for transition to rocket powered flight as orbital velocity is approached, simple feedback guidance laws for both the unconstrained and dynamic pressure constrained cases derived via singular perturbation theory and a nonlinear transformation technique, and numerical simulation results for ascent to orbit in the dynamic pressure constrained case.


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    Title :

    Trajectory Optimization and Guidance Law Development for National Aerospace Plane Applications


    Contributors:
    A. J. Calise (author) / G. A. Flandro (author) / J. E. Corban (author)

    Publication date :

    1988


    Size :

    130 pages


    Type of media :

    Report


    Type of material :

    No indication


    Language :

    English