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General Mission Analysis Tool (GMAT) is an open-source tool for space mission design and navigation.
This IS Mission ready ... it has Real World USE!!! And it IS Rocket Science ... for YOU ... for FREE!!https://gmat.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/GW/overview
https://sourceforge.net/projects/gmat/files/latest/downloadDo you want to go to Mars but don't know when to leave or how much to bring? Do you want to land something on the moon? The General Mission Analysis Tool (GMAT) is an open-source space mission analysis tool to answer just those types of questions.
GMAT is developed by a team of NASA, private industry, public, and private contributors. GMAT is intended both for real-world engineering design studies and as a tool for education and public engagement in the spirit of the NASA Charter.
GMAT and Space Mission Design
GMAT is designed to model, optimize, and estimate spacecraft trajectories in flight regimes ranging from low Earth orbit to lunar applications, interplanetary trajectories, and other deep space missions. Analysts model space missions in GMAT by first creating resources such as spacecraft, propagators, estimators, and optimizers.
Resources can be configured to meet the needs of specific applications and missions. GMAT contains an extensive set of available Resources that can be broken down into physical model Resources and analysis model Resources. Physical Resources include spacecraft, thruster, tank, ground station, formation, impulsive burn, finite burn, planet, comet, asteroid, moon, barycenter, libration point. Analysis model Resources include differential corrector, propagator, optimizer ,estimator*, 3-D graphic, x-y plot, report file, ephemeris file, user-defined variable, array, and string, coordinate system, custom subroutine, MATLAB function, and data.
Windows, Mac, and Linux Executables\Applications
Executable\Application files for all public releases are available on SourceForge in the Files page. Files are stored in folders by release name.
Source Code
If you use Mac or Linux, or if you just want the latest code, you can choose to build GMAT yourself. Our public code is hosted in a Git repository on SourceForge.
By now you are either drooling with the realization of sudden possibilities, and can't wait to get yours ... or your eyes glazed over: and you are drooling because your brain quit trying to understand this .... [like me]
http://gmatcentral.org/
https://gmat.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/GW/overview
https://sourceforge.net/projects/gmat/files/latest/download
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