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 trajectories from Earth-launch to a soft landing on the Moon. The trajectories are based 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 orbit transfer. All the trajectories have been simulated in STK/Astrogator module that has high-precision numerical integrator(s) using full force model. The authors also discuss the merits and drawbacks of each of above approaches and the effect of other parameters such as lighting conditions, landing site on the mission design, the approach taken, and the nature of results or conclusions that can be expected.