Throughout history, women have pioneered change through storytelling – sharing their perspectives, ideas, passions, and challenges to improve the world around them. This practice continues today as we “Celebrate The Women Who Tell Our Stories.” As we celebrate Women’s History Month this March, we are removing the “box” of a celebratory month and will continually amplify the contributions of Women in STEM all year long. Led by a female executive team – we believe it is advantageous to support women colleagues industry wide. We embrace all that identify as Women in STEM and all of the young women that aspire to follow in our footsteps – or bravely blaze their own trail. We are confident that by recognizing, celebrating, and amplifying the contributions of all Women – we can only get smarter and better.
“Surrounding yourself with the best people doesn’t make you look worse by comparison. It makes you better.” – Ann Friedman
The Lunar Orbital Platform-Gateway1 is proposed as an outpost in deep space: a proving ground for deep space technologies and a staging location for missions beyond Earth orbit. Envisioned as a crew-tended spacecraft, the Gateway will be constructed over time as various components are delivered either as co-manifested payloads with Orion or independently without crew presence. Naturally, spacecraft and objects with a wide range of shapes and masses will also depart the Gateway for other destinations. Read this white paper to learn about the Lunar Orbital Platform-Gateway and Disposal, Deployment, and Debris in Near Rectilinear Halo Orbits.
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In 2020 the United States Space Force (USSF) released an implementation of the SGP4-XP propagator, an advanced version of the existing SGP4 propagator stated to deliver accuracy roughly equivalent to that of the USSF’s Special Perturbations Ephemeris propagator (SPEPH) with runtimes only 50% to 100% longer than SGP4. This paper presents an analysis of the performance characteristics of the SGP4-XP propagation algorithm and considers new and existing practical applications where it can be used more effectively than SGP4.
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