Crew Exploration Vehicle Ascent Abort Trajectory Analysis and Optimization

• Main Authors: Falck, Robert D., Gefert, Leon P.
• Format: Other/Unknown Material
• Language: unknown
• Published: 2007
• Subjects: Launch Vehicles and Launch Operations; Orion; North Atlantic
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/2060/20080006650

The Orion Crew Exploration Vehicle is the first crewed capsule design to be developed by NASA since Project Apollo. Unlike Apollo, however, the CEV is being designed for service in both Lunar and International Space Station missions. Ascent aborts pose some issues that were not present for Apollo, d...