Publisher's Synopsis
This handbook contains graphic data necessary for the preliminary design of ballistic missions to Saturn. Contours of launch energy requirements, as well as many other launch and Saturn arrival parameters, are presented in launch date/arrival date space for all launch opportunities from 1985 through 200S. In addition, an extensive text is included which explains mission design methods, from launch window development to Saturn probe and orbiter arrival design, utilizing the graphical data in this volume as well as numerous equations relating various parameters. This is the first of a planned series of mission design documents which will apply to all planets and some other bodies in the solar system. This publication is one of a series of volumes devoted to interplanetary trajectories of different types. This describes ballistic trajectories. Part 3 treated ballistic trajectories to Jupiter. Parts 1 and 2 will treat ballistic trajectories to Venus and Mars, respectively.
