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Mission and System Analysis
publications
| project | short description | contact |
|---|---|---|
| RTSOPT | Within the collaborative research center SFB 259 "High Temperature Problems of Reusable Space Transportation Systems" and based on investigations previously performed at the IRS, a design tool for simultaneous system and mission optimization has been developed to analyze current and future launch vehicle concepts. This multidisziplinary software tool called RTSOPT (German abbreviation for Space Transportation System Optimization) uses a two-level decomposition optimization algorithm where system properties are based on available databases. | Dr. U. M. Schöttle |
| Tether | In the frame of the project B3 on "Adaptive Tethers for Orbital Systems" within the collaborative research center SFB 409 "Smart Structures" the dynamics and the control properties of electrodynamic tethers are investigated. For this purpose numerical simulation tools are developed in order to analyze adaptive control concepts in colaboration with other groups within the research center. | Prof. Dr. E. Messerschmid,
Dr. U. M. Schöttle, Frank Zimmermann |
| MIRKA (mission overview) | MIRKA (Micro-Reentry-Capsule) is a low cost ballistic experimental capsule funded by the German Space Agency DARA and developed by DASA/Jena Optronik and Kayser-Threde. It was launched as a piggy-pack payload on a Russian FOTON capsule in autumn 1997. Its main goals are to investigate the aerothermal environment that a reentry vehicle is exposed to, in order to verify in-flight temperature, pressure and heat flux measurement equipment, to examine the thermal behaviour of the heat protection concept SPA recently developed by DASA/Dornier, and to provide an aero-thermodynamic database. | Dr. U. M. Schöttle |
| COLIBRI | A semi-ballistic capsule COLIBRI (Concept of a Lifting Body for Reentry Investigations), funded by the German Space Agency DARA, was conceived as testbed to perform autonomously scientific and technology experiments during the reentry flight with three primary goals: to investigate aero-thermodynamic phenomena encountered during hypersonic flight, to test advanced materials and concepts for thermal protection systems, and to perform both flight dynamics and navigation, guidance, and control experiments during a controlled atmospheric flight. | Dr. U.
M. Schöttle,
Johannes Burkhardt |
