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Low Thrust Transfer from Earth to Mars

12 Dec 2006 (Updated 26 Dec 2006)

Code covered by the BSD License

Numerical model of an ion engine completing a transfer from Earth to Mars

File Information
Description	This spacecraft begins in a GTO and spirals out of Earth's SOI, then orbits around the sun and spirals in to Mars. This model uses ODE23 to integrate a 4-body gravitational model including a forcing function. The engine has an Isp of 3000 sec and a thrust of 200 mN. This was basically a code I wrote for a paper for my spaceflight dynamics class and I figured I'd share
MATLAB release	MATLAB 6.5 (R13)
Other requirements	ODE functions
Zip File Content
Other Files	LowThrust_Mars6.m, OrbCalc7.m, R3.m, randv.m, elorb.m, LowThrust_Mars.doc

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Everyone's Tags	aerodef, aeronautics, aerospace, earth mars, ion, low thrust, orbital mechanics, orbits, propulsion
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Comments and Ratings (2)
21 Dec 2006	Jeremy Renkie	Programs need to be checked for better error correction and documentation is not understandable
14 Aug 2007	Edu Salva	poor performance of simulation, no angles or dates shown whatsoever, not usefull information provided in this report

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Updates
26 Dec 2006	Included my paper that I wrote to provide those interested in the details for why I wrote this.

Tag Activity for this File
Tag	Applied By	Date/Time
aerospace	Richard Rieber	22 Oct 2008 08:52:19
aeronautics	Richard Rieber	22 Oct 2008 08:52:19
aerodef	Richard Rieber	22 Oct 2008 08:52:19
earth mars	Richard Rieber	22 Oct 2008 08:52:19
low thrust	Richard Rieber	22 Oct 2008 08:52:19
ion	Richard Rieber	22 Oct 2008 08:52:19
propulsion	Richard Rieber	22 Oct 2008 08:52:19
orbital mechanics	Richard Rieber	22 Oct 2008 08:52:19
orbits	Richard Rieber	22 Oct 2008 08:52:19

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