Genesis Flight Mechanics Simulation and Trajectory Design Tool v0.5.0

About this technology

Overview

Genesis is a generic, multi-vehicle, variable-degree-of-freedom flight mechanics simulation. It is capable of modeling ascent, aerocapture, entry, descent, and landing trajectories around a single planetary body. It is designed to be flexible and easily reconfigured for new vehicles. Genesis provides generic models for atmospheric properties, winds, aerodynamics, and propulsion. It can easily be extended with new environment, vehicle, or flight software models. Genesis can be used for a wide variety of analyses, ranging from optimizing a single trajectory to running a large Monte Carlo analysis in a High-Performance Computing (HPC) environment. Genesis is implemented in the Julia programming language.