RendezvousWithVesta ORSA allows to accurately simulate the dynamics of a spacecraft orbiting the asteroid Vesta
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RendezvousWithVesta is a graphical software application developed by Pasquale Tricarico at the Planetary Science Institute, in support to the NASA DAWN mission. RendezvousWithVesta allows to accurately simulate the dynamics of a spacecraft orbiting the asteroid Vesta. The motivations for developing this tool are: ￭ Understand how the physical parameters of Vesta affect the stability of low polar orbits; ￭ Understand how the physical parameters of Vesta and the orbital elements of DAWN affect the coverage of Vesta's surface; ￭ Provide a fast and reliable tool for the generation of orbits suitable for input in the Science Opportunity Analyzer (SOA) tool; The output files generated are: ￭ A SPICE SPK kernel describing the orbit of DAWN around Vesta, ￭ A formatted ASCII data file containing information about DAWN's orbit, phase angle, and equatorial coordinates with respect to Vesta; see the header of the file for more details;

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