Timeline
Look, Ma – I Made it to Mars
Discover how reverse integration, three-body modeling, and the HAWKEYE code created a precise Earth-to-Mars trajectory without nonlinear optimization.
1998
Timeline
Mars Madness
Explore a Mars Three-Body Problem research journey, from FORTRAN simulations and gravity-based trajectory modeling to solving singularities near Mars.
Discovery
1998.6.3 Emails from Roger Broucke
Explore Roger Broucke’s work on celestial mechanics, three-body dynamics, trajectory regularization, orbital stability, and Poincaré bifurcations.
Discovery
1998.4.15 NASA’s Standard Mars trajectory setup
Discover how PAM Abusali’s UT research inspired a Mars Pathfinder computer program using the standard five-thrust trajectory for space exploration.
Timeline
1998.3.11 Mission: Mars
Explore a graduate student’s journey into celestial mechanics, from Victor Szebehely and Roger Broucke to building a FORTRAN model for a Mars mission trajectory.