GUIDANCE, NAVIGATION AND CONTROL CHALLENGES FOR TEAM OMEGA ENVOY’S GLXP MISSION DESIGN

摘要

Team Omega Envoy presents a number of fully numerically integrated trajectoriesfrom Earth-launch to a soft landing on the Moon. The trajectories arebased on different approaches such as 5-day transfer to direct lunar landing,5-day transfer to lunar parking orbit, and Earth to Earth-Moon L1 to lunar orbittransfer. All the trajectories have been simulated in STK/Astrogator modulethat has high-precision numerical integrator(s) using full force model. The authorsalso discuss the merits and drawbacks of each of above approaches andthe effect of other parameters such as lighting conditions, landing site on themission design, the approach taken, and the nature of results or conclusionsthat can be expected.