Innovative trajectory design tools are required to support challenging multi-body regimes with complex dynamics, uncertain perturbations, and the integration of propulsion influences. Two distinctive tools, Adaptive Trajectory Design and the General Mission Analysis Tool have been developed and certified to provide the astrodynamics community with the ability to design multi-body trajectories. In this paper we discuss the multi-body design process and the capabilities of both tools. Demonstrable applications to confirmed missions, the Lunar IceCube Cubesat lunar mission and the Wide-Field Infrared Survey Telescope (WFIRST) Sun-Earth L2 mission, are presented.


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    Title :

    Trajectory Design Tools for Libration and Cis-Lunar Environments



    Conference:

    International Conference on Astrodynamics Tools and Techniques (ICATT) ; 2016 ; Darmstadt, Germany


    Publication date :

    2016-03-14


    Type of media :

    Conference paper


    Type of material :

    No indication


    Language :

    English




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