NASA NTRS · 19870000020
Planning Orbiter Flights
Abstract
Shuttle Mission Design and Operations Software (SMDOS) assists in design and operation of missions involving spacecraft in low orbits around Earth by providing orbital and graphics information. SMDOS performs following five functions: display two world and two polar maps or any user-defined window 5 degrees high in latitude by 5 degrees wide in longitude in one of eight standard projections; designate Earth sites by points or polygon shapes; plot spacecraft ground track with 1-min demarcation lines; display, by means of different colors, availability of Tracking and Data Relay Satellite to Shuttle; and calculate available times and orbits to view particular site, and corresponding look angles. SMDOS written in Laboratory Micro-systems FORTH (1979 standard)
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Harris, H. M., Bergam, M. J., Kim, S. L., Smith, E. A.. 1987-01-01. Planning Orbiter Flights. https://ntrs.nasa.gov/citations/19870000020
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