Orbital Manoeuvre Planner

ASE3004 Space Flight Mechanics · Project 38 · Satwik Sharma

Which manoeuvre should this mission fly?

Describe the transfer and what matters most. The tool sizes five candidate manoeuvres, optimises each one, removes those that break your constraints and ranks the rest.

Orbits

Initial altitudekm Target altitudekm Inclination changedeg

Constraints

Δv budgetkm/s Maximum transfer timeh

Propulsion on board

Both Chemical Electric

Mission priorities

Balanced Propellant Time Simple

Δv

Propellant

Transfer time

Simplicity

Weights tell the scoring what this mission values. Drag any slider to set your own.

Engine and limits

Chemical Isps Electric Isps Electric thrust F/mm/s² Max bi-elliptic apoapsiskm

Trade space

Δv against transfer time. Hollow markers break a constraint.

Transfer geometry

Ranking

Select a manoeuvre to draw it. Scores run from 0 to 1 across the feasible options.

ManoeuvreΔv km/sTimeBurnsPropellantComplexityScore

Rule-based checks

Textbook rules applied to this mission before scoring.