A good tool to prepare your interplanetary flight in the solar system

[Iberville]

Hi all,

This is a tool I have been using to plan my launch window for interplanetary flight. It's basically an excell spreadsheet very easy to use.

http://www.clowder.net/hop/railroad/sched.html

Click on the link Hohmann.xls to get it at the middle of that page. They is probably other stuff that I am not aware to prep for solar system flight, but this spreadsheet looks fabulous. Of course, the work is not mine! The maker has its coord on the document.

Hope this might be useful!

Iberville
Québec City

 

[Wishbone]

While you're at it, look for TrajectoryPlanner at OHM and LTTPlanner from Piper (the link was somewhere around the O-F). These applications are very handy for launch windows, too. If you want to do anything extraordinary, like a twenty-slingshot trip, suggest hiring flytandem (he's better at it than the JPL )

 

[jedidia]

the orbiter navigator

Still in Beta, but pretty stable and reliable by now. Second to none in terms of oversight it gives you of your trajectory and planning convieniance (change a detail in your ejection burn and immediately see the effects in all later burns, for example).

 

[Wishbone]

Gotta install XNA some day...