Spacecraft operations – William Easdown Babb

Touring Mission Control: My Trip to EUMETSAT

EUMETSAT (European Organisation for the Exploitation of Meteorological Satellites) is an international organisation headquartered in Darmstadt, Germany, that operates a fleet of Earth Observation satellites for users in Europe and around the world. On September 15th 2017 I spent a day visiting the EUMETSAT HQ and finding out about what they Read more…

By weasdown, 6 yearsJune 17, 2018 ago

GMAT

Rescuing the Space Shuttle: Introduction

While reading the great textbook Fundamentals of Astrodynamics and Applications by David A. Vallado the other day, I came across a really intriguing problem (on page 420, for those who have the book) relating to a hypothetical rescue of a crew of the American Space Shuttle by its Russian equivalent, Read more…

By weasdown, 7 yearsApril 12, 2018 ago