thesis/notes.md

Notes

Meeting with Bosanac (2021-09-15)

• Prioritize the flowcharts
• Be sure to include the error checking into the flowcharts
• look up Jacob Englander's PhD thesis for further background (UIUC)
• can begin reaching out to committee member to get a sense of availability in November in the next couple weeks
• Upload outline to the google drive

Refactor Notes (2021-09-25)

I need to determine the list of decision variables for each step:

• Defined by mission
  • Launch Window
  • Max launch C3
  • Max incoming C3 (or ||v∞||)
  • Latest arrival
• Decided by outer loop
  • Flyby choices
• Decided by inner loop
  • Launch date
  • Launch v∞_out
  • for each phase:
    • tof
    • v∞_in
    • turning angle
• Decided by NLP
  • thrust profile for each phase

Todo:

1. Add interpolate function
2. Add NLP solver sun test
3. Start on MBH