By Thomas Uhlig, Florian Sellmaier, Michael Schmidhuber

The booklet describes the elemental suggestions of spaceflight operations, for either, human and unmanned missions. the elemental subsystems of an area automobile are defined in committed chapters, the connection of spacecraft layout and the very distinct house surroundings are laid out. Flight dynamics are taught in addition to flooring section necessities. challenge operations are divided into education together with administration points, execution and making plans. Deep area missions and area robot operations are integrated as distinct circumstances. The booklet is predicated on a path held on the German area Operation heart (GSOC).

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1 Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Basic Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 Planning Teams . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 Concept of Crew Flexibility . . . . . . . . . . . 5 Planning Phases Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 Planning Products and Processes . . . . . . . . . 7 Planning Tools . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 Conclusion . . . . . . . . . . . . .

7 Summary and Outlook . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 Interplanetary Operations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Types of Interplanetary Missions . . . . . . . . . . 2 The Challenges of Interplanetary Flight . . . . . . . 3 Mission Control Approach . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 Special Operations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 Conclusions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 Lander Operations . . . . . . . . .

1 Definition of Subsystem . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Fundamentals . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 Space to Ground Data Streams . . . . . . . . . . . 4 OBDH Management . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 Summary and Outlook . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 Power and Thermal Operations . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 PTS Design Aspects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Operations . . . . . . . . . . .

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