Sumários

ESA Project (I)

23 Novembro 2021, 09:00 André Maria da Silva Dias Moitinho de Almeida

- Explanation of classes organization
- Introduction to ESA OSIP platform and to space projects in the field of physics and physical eng.
- Discussion of three calls (project calls):
    “New ideas for how space can boost Europe's green future”
    “New Ideas for the Commercial Use of ESA's Inventions”
    “SciSpacE Call for Proposals for Sounding Rocket experiments”
- Discussion of GSTP program (de-risk)
- Formation of groups and selection of work topics for each group.
- Definition of Action Items for each group for next class.



Population of orbital objects (cont)

23 Novembro 2021, 08:00 André Maria da Silva Dias Moitinho de Almeida

Complement to PL sessions: Analysis of the population of orbital objects (part IV)

: Multi-panel exploration of orbits and attributes with TOPCAT
- TOPCAT tutorial 
- Multi-dimensional analysis of orbital objects using multiple panels with linked views
- Identification of families of orbital objects


Population of orbital objects

18 Novembro 2021, 08:00 André Maria da Silva Dias Moitinho de Almeida

Complement to PL sessions: Analysis of the population of orbital objects (part III)

:: Analysis of the full population of tracked orbital objects
- Ingesting a file with TLEs for many objects
- Orbit integration and handling exceptions
- Computation of cartesian projections
- 3D visualisation of the orbital population
- Export computations to CSV file for analysis with other software


Analysis of the population of orbital objects (part II)

16 Novembro 2021, 09:00 André Maria da Silva Dias Moitinho de Almeida

: Analysis of a single object

- Explanation of the ephem and datetime packages
- Reading a TLE for a single object
- Orbit integration- Inspection of the output of orbit integration
- Orbit visualisation



Introduction to orbit mechanics (II)

16 Novembro 2021, 08:00 André Maria da Silva Dias Moitinho de Almeida

:: Orbit types 
- LEO
- GEO
- Molniya
- Polar
- MEO and Satellite constellations