Aerobraking mission design - Mission domain and mass performanceThe work reported comprises part of an Aerobraking Study that sought to establish a 'feasible mission design, navigation design, and MOS design and to show the desirability of aerobraking for the Venus Orbiting Imaging Radar (VOIR) mission by assessing mission performance, cost, and risk'. The developed software assesses accurately the mass performance of aerobraking and chemical missions that place a spacecraft in orbit about another planet. All injection date/arrival data combinations that provide a trajectory with adequate mass performance are available for further study. The considered analysis has been applied to the Type I trajectories from earth to Venus in 1988. The analysis can easily be applied to missions to Mars and to Titan. The intersection of the determined mass performance domain with the stable orbit domain provides an adequate mission domain for VOIR 1988.
Document ID
19810061380
Acquisition Source
Legacy CDMS
Document Type
Conference Paper
Authors
Kerridge, S. J. (California Institute of Technology, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Mission Design Section, Pasadena CA, United States)
Date Acquired
August 11, 2013
Publication Date
August 1, 1981
Subject Category
Astrodynamics
Report/Patent Number
AAS PAPER 81-133
Meeting Information
Meeting: Astrodynamics Specialist Conference
Location: Lake Tahoe, NV
Country: US
Start Date: August 3, 1981
End Date: August 5, 1981
Sponsors: American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, American Astronautical Society