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  • Spacecraft Control Toolbox To The Moon

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    Charles Swanson
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    Today, I will discuss two functions in release 2020.1 of the Spacecraft Control Toolbox (SCT) which can be used to get your spacecraft into a lunar orbit. They are LunarTargeting.m and LunarMissionControl.m. They are demonstrated together in the script LunarMission.m. LunarTargeting.m produces a transfer orbit that starts at a Low Earth Orbit (LEO) altitude and…

  • Artemis: From Gateway to Low Lunar Orbit

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    Michael Paluszek
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    One concept Gateway may be in a polar orbit with an apolune of 70,000 km and perilune of 3,000 km. One concept is for the lander and Orion to meet at Gateway. Our alternative is for Artemis to stay in a low lunar orbit and be met there by Orion, the cargo transfer vehicle and…

  • Artemis: NASA RFP for Lunar Landers

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    Michael Paluszek
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    NASA recently released a request for proposal for a lunar lander with a due date of November 1. https://www.nasa.gov/feature/fast-track-to-the-moon-nasa-opens-call-for-artemis-lunar-landers NASA would like a crew to land on the moon by 2024. We didn’t have time to write a proposal, but here is our design. We propose a single stage vehicle, that can land from and…

  • Lunar Topography

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    Michael Paluszek
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    If you are sending a spacecraft to the moon, you will be interested in lunar topography. A new function in the Spacecraft Control Toolbox lets you superimpose a height map onto any sphere. The function RSHMoon.m gives you the Clementine spacecraft topographic data using a spherical harmonic expansion of the rangefinder data. A new function,…