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
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;
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
DOI :
10.1109/WSC.2006.323220
