Mission Description

• Launch from Earth on Julian date 2452516.175 (Aug 29, 2002) -- fixed
• Flyby Venus on Julian date 2452682.175 (Feb 11, 2003) -- fixed
• Rendezvous Mercury on Julian date 2453363.5 (Dec 24, 2004) – fixed
• Launch Vehicle – Delta 7326-9.5; 10% contingency
• Launch V ∞ magnitude, direction: free
• Propulsion Model:  Old Electric Engine G (1 Engine)
• Power Model: gas60 solar array, P0 = 1.5 kW, Psc = 0.2 kW
• Objective function:  final mass
• Originally modeled using SEPTOP

Additional Mission Options

A. Same as Test Case 10 except now launch date and Venus flyby date are free.
B. Same as Test Case 10a except now the arrival date is free subject to the bounds of at most 10 days earlier or later.

Input/Output files

Copernicus20060310.zip (download)

MALTO4_3_2.zip (download)

Mystic9_0_0.zip (download)

SEPTOP11_136.zip (download)

All Reference Case 10:  Earth - Venus flyby - Mercury (7°) rendezvous Files (download zip)