Sumários
Introduction to Space Systems Engineering (II)
14 Novembro 2024, 11:30 • André Maria da Silva Dias Moitinho de Almeida
The space environment
- Overview
- Effects on mission design
- Radiation and thermal shielding
- Cleaning
- Effects of weightlessness
- Other
Analysis of the orbital object population (part II)
12 Novembro 2024, 09:00 • André Maria da Silva Dias Moitinho de Almeida
- Analysis of the full population of tracked orbital objects
- Ingesting a file with TLEs for many objects
- Orbit integration and exception handling
- Computation of cartesian positions
- 3D visualisation of the orbital population
- Export computations to CSV file for analysis with other software
- Multi-panel exploration of orbits and other attributes with TOPCAT
- TOPCAT tutorial
- Multi-dimensional analysis of orbital objects using multiple panels with linked views
- Identification of families of orbital objects
Introduction to Space Systems Engineering (I)
12 Novembro 2024, 08:00 • André Maria da Silva Dias Moitinho de Almeida
- Introduction
- Systemic vision of the space mission
- Space Segment: "Service modules" and "payloads"
- Launchers,
- Ground Segment
- Weight and costs
Introduction to orbit mechanics - II
7 Novembro 2024, 11:30 • André Maria da Silva Dias Moitinho de Almeida
- Orbit types
- LEO
- GEO
- Molniya
- Polar
- MEO and Satellite constellations
Analysis of the orbital object population (part I)
5 Novembro 2024, 09:00 • André Maria da Silva Dias Moitinho de Almeida
- Formats: TLEs, xml, etc
- Contents
- Sources: Online databases (Space-Track, Celestrack, ESA Discos)
- SGP orbit propagation
- Explanation of the ephem and datetime python packages
- Reading a TLE for a single object
- Orbit integration
- Inspection of the output of orbit integration
- Orbit visualisation