Potential NASA Commercial Applications: The system resulting from the Phase I and II stages of this work will provide the aerospace community with a tool designed to capitalize on evolving computer hardware systems. The system will scale to anticipated state-of-the-art multicore technologies, run on commonly used portable and desktop based hardware and operating systems, and enable the rapid processing of compute cycle intensive analyses. NASA users of this system will benefit from a software solution incorporating GMAT's proven software components running efficiently on evolving computer platforms, capable of scaling as needed to address compute intensive pieces of analysis like: (1) Launch window analyses, providing tuned solutions over large sets of potential launch epochs, (2) Dispersion analyses, allowing modeling of many trajectories at once based on varying orbital parameters from maneuvers, environmental factors, and insertion errors, (3)Large scale targeting problems, involving many variables and goals that need to be evaluated in order to find and optimize viable orbital solutions to mission goals, and (4) Mission analyses that require precision numerical propagation of many objects simultaneously for collision avoidance in Earth orbit. Since the new components are built on the existing GMAT architecture, NASA users will also have access to the extensibility features of GMAT, including the ability to build plug-in components that can run in the parallel processing environment created by this work.
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