Mission Analysis & Design

Emergent has expertise in orbital mechanics, space mission analysis and design. Emergent engineers work with a variety of mission design and analysis tools including Satellite Toolkit, FreeFlyer, and NASA GSFC's Orbit Determination Toolbox (ODTBX) and General Mission Analysis Tool (GMAT), as well as the Java Astrodynamics Toolkit (JAT), Freespace, and our internally developed tools. Emergent has experience and subject matter expertise in:

• Astrodynamics
• Maneuver Planning
• Trajectory Optimization
• Formation Flying and Cluster Flight
• Mission Design for Interplanetary, Earth Orbit and Near Earth Asteroid Missions
• Orbit Determination - both onboard and ground-based
• Attitude Determination and Control
• Guidance and Targeting