Guidance and Control Approaches that Enable Titan Aerogravity Assist for an Enceladus Mission

Whitepaper #489 submitted to the Planetary Science and Astrobiology Decadal Survey 2023-2032. Topics: other planetary bodies: Saturn, Titan, Enceladus; other science themes: Guidance and Control, Aerocapture, Aerogravity Assist; technology development

by Benjamin Tackett, Richard Powell, Soumyo Dutta, Rafael Lugo, and Daniel Engel

Published onMar 18, 2021

This white paper will describe how the use of advanced Guidance & Control (G&C) techniques could enable successful aerogravity assist maneuvers at Titan using existing low lift-to-drag ratio (L/D) vehicles and allow an orbiter to enter a Saturn-centered orbit with flybys of Enceladus.

Guidance and Control Approaches that Enable Titan Aerogravity Assist for an Enceladus Mission

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