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Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Maryland 20771

ENGINEERING COLLOQUIUM

Monday, November 14, 2016 / 3:30 PM, Building 3 Auditorium

Steven Hughes

"GMAT: The General Mission Analysis Tool"

ABSTRACT -- The General Mission Analysis Tool (GMAT), developed at the Goddard Space Flight Center by NASA and a private industry team, is an open source software system for space mission and trajectory design, optimization, and navigation. The system supports spacecraft flight regimes ranging from low-Earth orbit to lunar, libration point, and interplanetary deep space missions. This presentation will discuss the concepts of mission design and navigation describing how we design trajectories and fly spacecraft to targets throughout the solar system with applications demonstrated in the GMAT software.

SPEAKER -- Steven P. Hughes is a mission analyst in Goddard’s Navigation and Mission Design Branch, which is responsible for providing navigation and trajectory design expertise to flight projects and technology development efforts. He received his B.S. and M.S. degrees from Virginia Tech in 1997 and 1999 respectively. He has supported numerous missions as trajectory design engineer and designed the formation flying optimization algorithm currently used by MMS. He is the project manager and systems engineer for GMAT and specialized in trajectory optimization.


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