Author Topic: Highest-Inclination Departure Orbits for Planetary Mission?  (Read 1386 times)

Offline Proponent

  • Senior Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 7277
  • Liked: 2782
  • Likes Given: 1462
Of all the planetary missions that have ever been flown, which have had the departure hyperbolas of greatest inclination with respect to the earth's equator, and how large have those inclinations been?

Offline Jim

  • Night Gator
  • Senior Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 37442
  • Cape Canaveral Spaceport
  • Liked: 21452
  • Likes Given: 428
See Mars Odyssey

Offline deltaV

  • Senior Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 2159
  • Change in velocity
  • Liked: 621
  • Likes Given: 2138
Some of the remarks in the Orbits Q&A thread may be of interest to you, e.g.:
Apparently Mars Odyssey had a DLA of 51.7 degrees: page 14 of http://www.boeing.com/defense-space/space/delta/kits/d284_mars_odyssey.pdf. (Thanks to Jim for pointing out Mars Odyssey's declination in another thread.)
and
Answering part of my own question, it looks like Mars Odyssey was near the upper end of the range of Mars transfer DLAs. See figure 5 of  http://trs-new.jpl.nasa.gov/dspace/bitstream/2014/19062/1/98-0259.pdf and many figures of http://www.scribd.com/doc/33801471/NASA-MSFC-Mission-Design-Handbook .
« Last Edit: 02/16/2012 02:20 am by deltaV »

Offline Rocket Guy

  • Full Member
  • ****
  • Posts: 1349
  • Liked: 7
  • Likes Given: 1
Mars Odyssey was originally planned to launch from VAFB too.

Online gwiz

  • Full Member
  • ****
  • Posts: 602
  • Cornwall
  • Liked: 143
  • Likes Given: 29
Does Clementine count? Asteroid mission via the moon, with an initial inclination of 67 degrees.

Tags:
 

Advertisement NovaTech
Advertisement Northrop Grumman
Advertisement
Advertisement Margaritaville Beach Resort South Padre Island
Advertisement Brady Kenniston
Advertisement NextSpaceflight
Advertisement Nathan Barker Photography
0