ASEN 5050
SPACEFLIGHT DYNAMICS
Three-Body Orbits
Prof. Jeffrey S. Parker
University of Colorado – Boulder
Lecture 24: General Perturbations
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Announcements
• Homework #7 is out now! Due in one week (Monday
morning).
– Posted to D2L – I’ll post it to the 5050 website next.
– Pretty easy homework – practice with numerical
integration. Comparing it to Kepler.
• Reading: Chapters 8 and 9
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Schedule from here out
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10/27: Three-Body Orbits
10/29: General Perturbations (Alan)
10/31: General Perturbations part 2
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11/3: Mission Orbits / Designing with perturbations
11/5: Interplanetary 1
11/7: Interplanetary 2
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11/10: Entry, Descent, and Landing
11/12: Low-Energy Mission Design
11/14: STK Lab 3
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11/17: Low-Thrust Mission Design (Jon Herman)
11/19: Finite Burn Design
11/21: STK Lab 4
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Fall Break
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12/1: Constellation Design, GPS
12/3: Spacecraft Navigation
12/5: TBD
• 12/8: TBD
• 12/10: TBD
Lecture
24: General
Perturbations
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Final
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Schedule from here out
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Our last lecture will be Friday 12/12.
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Final review and final Q&A.
Showcase your final projects – at least any that are finished!
Final Exam
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Handed out on 12/12
Due Dec 18 at 1:00 pm – either into D2L’s DropBox or under my door.
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I heartily encourage you to complete your final project website by Dec 12th so you can focus
on your finals. However, if you need more time you can have until Dec 18th. As such the
official due date is Dec 18th.
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The final due date for everything in the class is Dec 18th - no exceptions unless you have a
very real reason (medical or otherwise - see CU's policies here:
http://www.colorado.edu/engineering/academics/policies/grading). Of course we will
accommodate real reasons.
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If you are a CAETE student, please let me know if you expect an issue with this timeframe.
We normally give CAETE students an additional week to complete everything, but the grades
are due shortly after the 18th for everyone. So please see if you can meet these due dates.
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Final Project
• Get started on it!
• Worth 20% of your grade, equivalent to 6-7 homework assignments.
• Find an interesting problem and investigate it – anything related to
spaceflight mechanics (maybe even loosely, but check with me).
• Requirements: Introduction, Background, Description of
investigation, Methods, Results and Conclusions, References.
• You will be graded on quality of work, scope of the investigation,
and quality of the presentation. The project will be built as a
webpage, so take advantage of web design as much as you can
and/or are interested and/or will help the presentation.
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Final Project
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Instructions for delivery of the final project:
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Build your webpage with every required file inside of a directory.
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Name your main web page “index.html”
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Name the directory “<LastName_FirstName>”
there are a lot of duplicate last names in this class!
You can link to external sites as needed.
i.e., the one that you want everyone to look at first
Make every link in the website a relative link, relative to the directory structure
within your named directory.
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We will move this directory around, and the links have to work!
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Test your webpage! Change the location of the page on your computer and make
sure it still works!
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Zip everything up into a single file and upload that to the D2L dropbox.
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Space News
• MESSENGER is surviving its exciting (and hot!) mission
at Mercury
• June 17th: OCM-9 raised its orbit. ~5.0 m/s
– Periapse altitude 113.9 km  155.1 km
– Orbital period 8hrs  8hr 2min
• Sept 12th: OCM-10 raised its orbit. ~8.6 m/s
– Periapse altitude 24.3 km  94.0 km
– Orbital period 8hrs 2min  8hrs 5min
• Oct 24th: OCM-11 raised its orbit. ~19.4 m/s
– Periapse altitude 26.0 km  185.2 km
– Orbital period 8hrs 5min  8hrs 12min
• Jan 21st: OCM-12 will….raise its orbit again!
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Space News
• China just launched a round-trip lunar demonstrator
mission – a precursor to a sample return mission!
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Perturbation Discussion Strategy
✔• Introduce the 3-body and n-body problems
– We’ll cover halo orbits and low-energy transfers later
✔• Numerical integration
✔• Introduce aspherical gravity fields
– J2 effect, sun-synchronous orbits
✔• Solar radiation pressure
✔• Atmospheric drag
– Atmospheric entries
✔• Other perturbations
• General perturbation techniques
• Further discussions on mean motion vs. osculating
motion.
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ASEN 5050
SPACEFLIGHT DYNAMICS
Three-Body Orbits
Prof. Jeffrey S. Parker
University of Colorado – Boulder
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