This is a very cool but unusual mission
(Caution: light nerd-level flight mechanics without 3 and 4-body-problem math)
• Flight-path overview
• Mission details
Stuff That’s Hard to Do (Falcon9 KPLO SKorean lunar-orbiter)
This is a very cool but unusual mission
(Caution: light nerd-level flight mechanics without 3 and 4-body-problem math)
• Flight-path overview
• Mission details
HEY!
If *I* have to do 10th-order polynomials to do orbits, then YOU have to do 3rd- and 4th body problems.
Don’t wimp out on us!!
Igor ^
I haven’t done any orbital mechanics since the ’70s, and that was just simple, deterministic 2-body Earth-satellite stuff using a slide rule. Okay, back in grad school, we did an Earth-to-Moon example, but that was simplified by transitioning from 2-body Earth gravity to 2-body Moon gravity at the point in the flight where they were equal. This stuff, on the other hand, is… woo! [rubs temples]
Next week: orbiting a Lagrange point a la Webb Space Telescope
KPLO says: “Hold my soju.”