Course overview
This course aims to equip students with knowledge and practical skills related to space missions, from historical milestones to future prospects. Students will explore the intricacies of the space environment and its effects on space missions, understand the objectives and planning processes for space missions, and engage in conceptual studies of aerospace vehicle dynamics. By simulating spaceflights using various models, students will gain hands-on experience in designing and planning simple space missions to achieve specific scientific or technological goals.
Course learning outcomes
- Discuss the scientific and technological uses, benefits, outcomes, and impacts of past, present, and future space missions
- Describe the space environment and analyse its impacts on the mission requirements for manned and unmanned space missions
- Explain the powered and unpowered motion of aerospace vehicles
- Use simulations to model the powered and unpowered motion of aerospace vehicles
- Design and simulate a simple space mission to achieve a scientific or technological goal
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