I'm been flying a lot of AMSO lately. I'm trying to re-create certain missions with as much historic accuracy as possible. Yesterday I did a full Apollo 11 mission with all the major milestones (SIVB Shutdown, transposition and docking, LOS/AOS, lunar landing, splashdown etc...) only around 4 minutes behind the actual GET times from Apollo 11 By The Numebrs.
This was all made possible by using IMFD. It's a great tool. However, I'm not too sure which program I should be using for mid-course corrections. To be historically accurate I need to be able to set three parameters for the lunar encounter: PeA, PeT (GET for encounter in Map) and the angle to my chosen landing site. Simply using the Delta Velocities program causes major headaches, as changing one value changes all three of the encounter values. Which means I have to sit there for ages tweaking to get it all right.
Planet Approach seems like it should work, but gives me conflicting results between it and Map. Say, I would set Planet Approach reference to Moon and then set PeA to 96km, in Map it would say that my PeA will be 2.6M. I'm not sure which to trust.
I can and have been doing the corrections using Delta Velocities, but it is extremely time consuming, and I suspect there is an easier way. Is there?
This was all made possible by using IMFD. It's a great tool. However, I'm not too sure which program I should be using for mid-course corrections. To be historically accurate I need to be able to set three parameters for the lunar encounter: PeA, PeT (GET for encounter in Map) and the angle to my chosen landing site. Simply using the Delta Velocities program causes major headaches, as changing one value changes all three of the encounter values. Which means I have to sit there for ages tweaking to get it all right.
Planet Approach seems like it should work, but gives me conflicting results between it and Map. Say, I would set Planet Approach reference to Moon and then set PeA to 96km, in Map it would say that my PeA will be 2.6M. I'm not sure which to trust.
I can and have been doing the corrections using Delta Velocities, but it is extremely time consuming, and I suspect there is an easier way. Is there?