The purpose of this assessment was to develop updates and new features for the NASA Copernicus Spacecraft Trajectory Design and Optimization analysis tool (version 5.0) for application to NASA programs and projects. These updates will significantly improve the ability to design and optimize complex trajectories over multiple trajectory phases; will allow the use of unique vehicle-specific guidance, control, and trajectory strategies and constraints; and the creation of an almost unlimited number of unique user-defined capabilities. The primary stakeholders for this assessment are the trajectory design and optimization analysts and engineers, and the chief engineers and project managers for existing programs, projects, and/or tasks that involve impulsive, finite burn, and/or continuous thrust trajectories (e.g., Sun, planet, comet, asteroid, halo orbit, Lagrange point, and distant retrograde orbit). The breadth of application spans the preliminary engineering and mission design concepts and optimization, to the development of candidate reference missions and integrated mission design for vehicle system design and operation, to the design and development of flight trajectories and associated propulsive maneuvers for real-time operations.


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    Title :

    Improvements to the Copernicus Trajectory Design and Optimization System for Complex Space Trajectories



    Publication date :

    2019-01-01


    Type of media :

    Report


    Type of material :

    No indication


    Language :

    English




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