Analyzed at the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, MD the specific propulsion concepts and how they affect the performance variance of thrusters on satellites in multi-spacecraft missions. In order to simulate thruster performance variance on the Hubble Recover Mission, I developed a program in MatLab which was able to input a file of change in velocity vectors of a control situation and output parameters such as mass of propellant consumed while varying thrust levels and specific impulse values.

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Creator

• Tetreault, Lindsey Marie

Publisher

• Worcester Polytechnic Institute

Identifier

• 05D287M

Advisor

• Blandino, John J.

Year

• 2005

Date created

• 2005-01-01

Resource type

• Major Qualifying Project

Major

• Mechanical Engineering

Rights statement

• In Copyright