Recent content by JayFlynn

Cheers Janus. This is really helpful!

So, it would be more efficient to do a Mars slingshot but they're aligned so infrequently that it's not worth waiting?

so why can't you just do a really close slingshot around Mars to make up for it's small mass?

I am doing research for my aerospace engineering dissertation to plan a mission to a Jupiter trojan asteroid. I was researching the type of outgoing trajectories used in missions such as JUNO, Galileo and Europa and noticed they all use Earth as a gravity assist in getting to deep space. Surely...

Undefined function 'R' for input arguments of type 'double'. Error in SEMJ_5>Gravity (line 99) X = R(1); Error in SEMJ_5>@(t,RV)Gravity(t,RV) (line 60) [T,RV] = ode23(@(t,RV) Gravity(t, RV),T', init_val); Error in odearguments (line 87) f0 = feval(ode,t0,y0,args{:}); % ODE15I sets args{1}...

Okay thanks guys, I am new to all this. Heres the data files. When i run the code it says there is an error with my input arguments in the line where i call the ode solver.

I am trying to plot the trajectory of an asteroid in MATLAB using ode23. The only bodies in the system are The Sun, Earth, Mars and Jupiter and their orbital data has been loaded from data files. I have picked arbitrary initial conditions for the asteroid and believe my forces are correct. My...