Advanced space mission design, requirements development, and analysis. Analyses of current and future space systems and missions, space platform and payload concepts. Orbital mechanics; coverage; space-to-ground and space-to-space communications; remote sensing; disaggregation; infrastructure; terrain modeling; space vehicle and payload performance constraints, dynamics, and degradation; homogeneous and heterogeneous constellations; launch; the space environment; space mission environmental and economic impact; and mission modeling and simulation for Earth orbit, interplanetary, and CisLunar regimes.
Comp Aided Space Msn Analysis
Host University
Virginia Tech
Semester
Fall 2026
Course Number
AOE-4414
CRN
80511
Credits
3
Discipline
Aerospace and Ocean Engineering
Course Information
Prerequisites
( AOE 2074 (MIN grade of P) or ESM 2074 (MIN grade of P) or ECE 2504 ) (MIN grade of P) , ( AOE 2664 (MIN grade of P) or ECE 2164 (MIN grade of P) or AOE 3154 ) (MIN grade of P) Prerequisites Enforced: Yes