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Provides a foundation in space flight mechanics, to understand why a spacecraft follows suborbital, orbital, and escape trajectories, and the methods used to establish and control these trajectories.

Description:

OPS 104 provides an overview of orbital and attitudinal dynamics. The intent is to provide a meaningful understanding of spacecraft flight dynamics with minimal mathematical emphasis. Thus, the student will gain sufficient knowledge that, when presented with mission profiles from a flight dynamics specialist, they will have a conceptual understanding of the flight profiles and the sequence of events needed to actualize the profile in a simulation environment.

Goals:

The purpose of this course is to provide a foundation in space flight mechanics, so as to understand why a spacecraft follows suborbital, orbital, and escape trajectories and the methods used to establish and control these trajectories. This knowledge will facilitate flight profile execution in the simulators.

Objectives

Upon completing this course, scientist candidates will be able to:

1. Explain the relationship of gravity and velocity in establishing suborbital, orbital, and escape trajectories.
2. Describe vehicle attitude representations and control methods.
3. Describe an orbit around a celestial body using classical Keplerian Elements.
4. Explain the use of velocity changes to change from an existing to a desired trajectory.
5. Demonstrate the use of simplified linearized approximations and their effective use in rendezvous and proximity operations in preparation for docking.
6. Describe profiles for establishing departure, rendezvous, encounters, entry, and landings between planets or other celestial bodies.

Curriculum:

Part 1 provides the astrodynamics foundation, which is 11 weeks of webinar lectures, that provides foundational knowledge of orbital mechanics and attitudinal dynamics to facilitate performance in simulator scenarios.

Part 2 will be a four day Orion spacecraft simulator-based course.  Lectures will focus on the practical aspects of flight dynamics, helpful toward executing the simulator scenarios:

1. Launch to ISS orbital intercept/rendezvous using space suits.

2. ISS proximity operations and docking, flight suit environment

3. De-orbit and landing scenarios using space suits

 

Course Start: Fall Semester

Duration: 6 weeks

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