2022-01-25

Meeting with Andalibi orbital-debris

• Ballistic Coeff seems to be one of the most important metrics when characterizing a piece of debris for importance.
  • Relies on Coeff of Drag which will be hard to calculate.
  • Look into calculating ballistic Coeff. from stl of debris. 📅 2022-02-01 ✅ 2022-02-01
    • SolidWorks has the capability but likely cannot be automated.
      • https://www.webpages.uidaho.edu/mindworks/Adv%20Solidworks/CFD/Drag%20coefficient%20of%20sphere%20-%20Final.pdf
    • Debris Research
• Help Andalibi with creating a website for his research. 📅 2022-02-01 ✅ 2022-01-27

Halo Orbits

Potential project post. Helps with getting a position as a GNC Engineer

Halo orbits are orbits no in the normal orbital plane around the sun and are usually in Lagrange points.

• Resources

• https://web.archive.org/web/20110716144221/http://www.stk.com/downloads/corporate/partners/edu/SFMpaper.pdf
• https://blogs.nasa.gov/webb/2022/01/21/webbs-journey-to-l2-is-nearly-complete/
• https://blogs.nasa.gov/webb/2022/01/24/orbital-insertion-burn-a-success-webb-arrives-at-l2/
• https://www.jwst.nasa.gov/content/webbLaunch/whereIsWebb.html?units=metric
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halo_orbit
• https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30062510