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AOE-4414: Computer Aided Space Mission Analysis

Description: Advanced space mission design, requirements development, and analysis. Analyses of current and future space systems and missions, space platform and payload concepts. Orbital mechanics; coverage; space-to-ground and space-to-space communications; remote sensing; disaggregation; infrastructure; terrain modeling; space vehicle and payload performance constraints, dynamics, and degradation; homogeneous and heterogeneous constellations; launch; the space environment; space mission environmental and economic impact; and mission modeling and simulation for Earth orbit, interplanetary, and CisLunar regimes.

Pathways: N/A

Course Hours: 3 credits

Prerequisites: (AOE-2074 or ECE-2504 or ESM-2074) and (AOE-2664 or AOE-3154 or ECE-2164)

Required By: N/A

Corequisites: N/A

Crosslist: N/A

Repeatability: N/A

Sections Taught: 1

Average GPA: 3.54 (rounds to A-)

Strict A Rate (No A-) : 61.40%

Average Withdrawal Rate: 0.00%

Bradley Denby202463.2%28.1%7.1%1.8%0.0%0.0%3.541

Grade Distribution Over Time

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Fall 2024Term050% W