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Miller, J. K.

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DOE OSTI2016

A Scaling-based Applicability Assessment of the CAER Integrated Systems Test Facility

This paper presents a scaling-based applicability assessment of the Integrated Systems Test (IST) facility located at the Center of Advanced Engineering Research in Forest, Virginia. The assessment draws upon both traditional and contemporary scaling methods, seeking an optimal representation of light water reactor (LWR) and small modular reactor (SMR) characteristics during design-basis events. Based on published LWR loss-of-coolant-accident phenomena identification and ranking tables compiled with a similar assessment completed by BWXT mPower, Inc., for the mPower{sup TM} SMR, the phenomena considered in the IST design include break flow, decay heat, loop thermal-hydraulics, and primary-to-secondary heat transfer. Among these, the single- and two-phase natural circulation and system depressurization, by association to loop thermal-hydraulics, were the principal challenges. (authors)

22 GENERAL STUDIES OF NUCLEAR REACTORS↗
NASA NTRS2003

Autonomous landmark tracking orbit determination strategy

In this paper, an orbit determination strategy is described that is fully autonomous and relies on a computer-based crater detection and identification algorithm that is suitable for both automation of the ground based navigation system and autonomous spacecraft based navigation.

landmark tracking orbit determination↗
NASA NTRS2003

Autonomous landmark based spacecraft navigation system

An autonomous landmark based spacecraft navigation scheme is presented. This new schme involves the following data processing steps: image selection and planning; landmark detection; preliminary image matching; crater matching; database management; and finally landmark based orbit determination.

autonomous↗
NASA NTRS2003

Lunar transfer trajectory design and the four-body problem

The existence of a ballistic trajectory from the Earth to orbit about the Moon was long considered to be impossible based on analysis of the three-body problem. In 1990 a ballistic trajectory from the Earth to lunar orbit was discovered while analyzing a plan to salvage the Muses A (Hiten) spacecraft. This trajectory utilized the Sun's gravity in conjunction with the Earth and Moon's gravity and was thus the first example of a practical four-body trajectory design. This paper presents a review of lunar transfer trajectories that go beyond three-body theory and the Jacobi integral. These include Hiten, Lunar A and the Genesis return trajectory from the vicinity of the Moon to Earth.It is shown that these trajectories may be analyzed by piecing together segments where three-body motion dominates.

Muses↗
NASA NTRS2002

Applications of Tisserand's criterion to the design of gravity assist trajectories

In this paper, a procedure is described for finding these encounter times using Lambert's theorem and a new criterion based on Tisserand's criterion to identify pairs of transfer orbits between the launch planet and intermediate planet and between the intermediate planet and target planet.

Tisserand gravity assist Lambert's theorem traject↗
NASA NTRS2001

The design and navigation of the NEAR-Shoemaker landing on Eros

This paper discusses the design, navigation and the Monte Carlo error analyses that were critical to the design of this landing scenario. Also described is the reconstruction of the landing trajectory using radio metric, optical landmark and laser ranging tracking data, which determined the characteristics of the landing to be well within the error analyses.

NEAR↗