software for planning / debriefing

[Jarod]

Do you use software(s) besides Orbiter to do some planning and/or debriefing for your missions ?

Planning for launch trajectory through the atmosphere, viewing of all the orbits after the mission, that kind of thing.

 

[Urwumpe]

I currently experiment with something like that, but don't nail me on anything. I have two orbiter related test projects for learning NetBeans RCP, but they have a halflife of a week before I delete them and start again. One of them is a Mission Planner for SSU, the other a rocket design tool.

Would be theoretically possible, to add modules for non-SSU vehicles to it.

 

[garyw]

I've messed around with Google Earth, STK and celestia but most of the time it's pen and paper.

 

[Jarod]

I tried to use STK for launch trajectory planning but properties of a launch vehicle don't include mass, thrust or anything useful for that matter, and still it gives a launch trajectory (roll, pitch, yaw) if you give it longitude, latitude, altitude, velocity wanted at burnout.
I don't understand how this trajectory can be useful to anyone if there is no way to specify any physical parameters of the launch vehicle.
No luck in the help file.

 

[Arrowstar]

I suspect it's using optimal control theory, which actually only depends on the desired start and end state of your trajectory.