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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.

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Course Hours: 3 credits

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

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Sections Taught: 0

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