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Ascent Manager EPIC rewrite

lamont-granquist opened this issue ยท 1 comments

commented

The Shuttle PEG rewrite is here:

That had issues which make it not generally viable for public consumption.

A new version of that guidance is being rewritten which will do more exact trajectory calculations without the clipping issues of PEG, that will solve a lot of problem. The feature set it will ultimately target includes:

  • timed launches to only LAN of target / user-entered LAN
  • launches to selected keplerian coordinates, with the unselected ones being optimized.
  • launch to rendezvous that works without a prelaunch
  • suborbital launches to a desired altitude (and keplerian targets like inc) with the final velocity being maximized after the stage burns out
  • direct ascent to a moon
  • optimized coasts
  • direct ascent to interplanetary (wishlist)
  • node executor rewrite using that guidance under the covers
  • landing guidance rewrite using that guidance under the covers (#1052)
commented

gah, i can't believe i opened two identical epic issues, need more coffee, #1061 mostly has more detail now.