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Tesi etd-11112011-114228


Tipo di tesi
Tesi di laurea specialistica
Autore
IORFIDA, ELISABETTA
URN
etd-11112011-114228
Titolo
Preliminary Design of Interplanetary Trajectories with Deep Space Manoeuvres
Dipartimento
INGEGNERIA
Corso di studi
INGEGNERIA AEROSPAZIALE
Relatori
relatore Prof. Mengali, Giovanni
correlatore Prof. Quarta, Alessandro A.
Parole chiave
  • astrodynamics
  • deep space manoeuvres
  • optimization
  • primer vector
Data inizio appello
29/11/2011
Consultabilità
Completa
Riassunto
The aim of the present work has been to design high-thrust interplanetary trajectories with Deep Space Manoeuvres (DSMs). The work has been developed at the department of Astrodynamics & Space Missions, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands, within the context of Tudat, TU Delft Astrodynamics Toolbox.
It is a C++ library intended to provide the functionality to perform simulations for various astrodynamics applications, e.g., interplanetary trajectory optimization, asteroid-rendezvous missions, re-entry phase, etc. During this work, about 9000 lines of code have been written, able to simulate a complete interplanetary trajectory.
To model the DSMs, it has been used an indirect optimization method, the primer vector variational approach. This method allows a strong decrease in the search space, when a global optimization is applied. Many verifications about the written codes have been made, in particular to test the entire developed package, a simulation about the current Phobos-Grunt mission has been carried out.
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