AENG 4050 (Space Mission Analysis & Design)

Syllabus (Fall 2020). In addition, this course honors the campus-wide syllabus statements as follows:

Academic Honesty/Integrity

Disability Accommodations

Title IX

• Fall 2020 - Statement on Face Masks

• Fall 2020 - In-Class Attendance and Participation

Course Handouts (2020. Must have a SLU login to view)

• All classes are recorded and are posted in Panopto, usually by the end of the day that class is held.

• (Note: only students enrolled in the course will be able to open that link)

Introduction Charts (now updated with verification)

• Spacecraft Environment (courtesy the SCAF workshop)

• Orbits. Note that these handouts are directly lifted from AENG 3150 and will not be covered in class. (Consider this to be some of the "extra work" required of the graduate-level version of this course)

• Classic orbits: ellipse and hyperbola

• Orbit Maneuvers

• Earth Orbits

Communications

Power

Structures

Thermal

Command & Data Handling

Attitude Determination & Control

• Propulsion. If the charts aren't enough, a looong series of recordings are available:

  • Part 1 (45:28) *

    • Intro to rocketry (Goddard & the New York Times)

    • Momentum transfer

  • Fundamental types of rocket propulsion

  • Rocket propulsion examples

• Part 2 (63:19) *

  • The rocket equation

  • Fundamental parameters, sizing equations

  • Staging

  • Real-world effects (Gravity and Drag), briefly.

• Part 3 (59:12) *

  • Real-world rockets

  • Launch sites

  • Digression into the Farewell Dossier

  • Mission failures (Challenger)

Everything you need to know about orbital mechanics on one (double-sided) page.

Homework Assignments

Final Design Project

• HW05: You Spin Me Right round (Due 10/22).

• HW04: Command & Data Handling (Due 10/15).

  • Rover Flash Anomaly (IEEE Paper)

  • Rover Flash Anomaly (EE Times Article - Thanks, Internet Wayback Machine!)

  • Remote Agent (IEEE Paper)

• HW03: Structures and Thermal (Due 10/06). You will need to read the following sections from the Pioneer Venus case study

  • Structures

  • Thermal

• HW02: Communications and Power (Due 09/22)

• HW01: Rovers are For Mars, Orbiters are for Venus? (Due 09/03)

• HW00: Systems Toolkit. The purpose of this assignment is to work out the installation of Systems Toolkit (STK) before you need to use it on future homework. You receive no credit for completing this assignment. However, no extensions will be granted on future assignments on account of problems running Systems Toolkit. (Welcome to graduate classes, where the burden is on the student...)

  • Go to agi.com

  • Create a (free) account

  • Download and install STK

  • Start the license manager. On that start page, you will see a field named "Host ID". Email me your host ID, and I will forward to you the license. Turnaround time is typically less than a day.

  • AGI has a long list of excellent tutorials for learning to use the application. I strongly recommend that you do the work associated with becoming Level 1 certified (and Level 2, if you have the time/inclination).

Other Resources

• • A Scale Model of the Universe, built in the Desert (7 Minutes)