hitch-hiking-guide-to-the-mars
This project is solving the Create Your Own Asteroid Mission challenge. Description
It will reduce the transfer impulses required in an orbital transfer to get from Earth to Mars. Therefore reducing cost or increasing available weight to use.
Why: - Reduce craft mass - Increases available payload weight (for experiments) - Potential to study asteroid - Lowers cost
Challenges: - Alignment of orbits (Earth, Asteroid, Mars) - Docking with asteroid - Asteroid has insignificant gravity - Delta V to asteroid less than Delta V normal orbit transfer
Project Information
License: Simple Public License 2.0 (SimPL-2.0)
Source Code/Project URL: https://www.dropbox.com/sh/jsgjop45yw46hpl/VQp51XG0an
Resources
Asterank - http://www.asterank.com/
GMAT - http://gmat.gsfc.nasa.gov/
- http://smallbodies.ru/en/asteroids/info/general/2010_SZ3/
Comets and Asteroids: (2010 SZ3) - http://comets-asteroids.findthedata.org/l/599325/2010-SZ3
NEOs as stepping stones to Mars and main-belt asteroids - http://www.sciencedirect.com.ezp01.library.qut.edu.au/science/article/pii/S0094576510000792?np=y
Near-Earth Asteroid Delta-V for Spacecraft Rendezvous - http://echo.jpl.nasa.gov/~lance/delta_v/delta_v.rendezvous.html
Delta-v budget - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delta-v_budget
