DocumentCode
1806170
Title
Low Earth Orbit Rendezvous Strategy for Lunar Missions
Author
Gates, G.R. ; Cirillo, William M. ; Stromgren, Chel
Author_Institution
Oper. Integration Div., Kennedy Space Center, FL
fYear
2006
fDate
3-6 Dec. 2006
Firstpage
1248
Lastpage
1252
Abstract
On January 14, 2004 President George W. Bush announced a new vision for space exploration calling for NASA to return humans to the moon. In 2005 NASA decided to use a low Earth orbit (LEO) rendezvous strategy for the lunar missions. A discrete event simulation (DES) based model of this strategy was constructed. Results of the model were then used for subsequent analysis to explore the ramifications of the LEO rendezvous strategy
Keywords
Earth orbit; aerospace computing; discrete event simulation; space vehicles; discrete event simulation; low Earth orbit rendezvous strategy; lunar missions; space exploration; Discrete event simulation; Humans; Low earth orbit satellites; Moon; NASA; Propellants; Rockets; Space missions; Space shuttles; Vehicles;
fLanguage
English
Publisher
ieee
Conference_Titel
Simulation Conference, 2006. WSC 06. Proceedings of the Winter
Conference_Location
Monterey, CA
Print_ISBN
1-4244-0500-9
Electronic_ISBN
1-4244-0501-7
Type
conf
DOI
10.1109/WSC.2006.323220
Filename
4117744
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