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Next year the Hyabusa spacecraft will return to Earth from the asteroid Itokawa. Inspired by this, you are required to report on your individual study of the following:
The free trajectory options, associated Δv requirements and mission times to take a spacecraft from a low Earth orbit (LEO) to a low orbit around Itokawa, if Itokawa is at:
a. perihelion, (147,098,074 Km)
b. apohelion. (152,097,701 Km)
What are the pros and cons of each mission?
LEO is at 8378 Km, How ever I have no idea how to caluclate the oribit of Itokawa, to get the distance between it and LEO. Also having problem geting the change in v.
About Itokawa : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/25143_Itokawa
Hope some one can help. Thanks in advance.
The free trajectory options, associated Δv requirements and mission times to take a spacecraft from a low Earth orbit (LEO) to a low orbit around Itokawa, if Itokawa is at:
a. perihelion, (147,098,074 Km)
b. apohelion. (152,097,701 Km)
What are the pros and cons of each mission?
LEO is at 8378 Km, How ever I have no idea how to caluclate the oribit of Itokawa, to get the distance between it and LEO. Also having problem geting the change in v.
About Itokawa : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/25143_Itokawa
Hope some one can help. Thanks in advance.