Spacecraft trajectories

There are many possible projects which involve computing trajectories of spacecraft from Earth to other bodies in the solar system. This page contains resources which might be used for such projects.

Possible projects

For more information:

• NASA Ames Research Center Trajectory Browser
  This website asks the user to specify a destination (and a few additional details); it then searches through a large database of pre-made trajectories from a number of past NASA studies and returns a list of those which might be relevant. It might be very useful at the start of a project to figure out roughly when launch windows would occur.
  • Trajectory Browser User Guide
• The Astrogator's Guild
  A collection of many resources for those interested in interplanetary travel. The "Tutorials" section might be of particular relevance.
  • Tutorial for a Mars mission based on STK/Astrogator software
• REBOUND
  This N-body integrator can compute quickly and accurately the motions of objects under their mutual gravitational influence.

This page maintained by Michael Richmond.