Earth-to-Mars Interplanetary Pork Chop Plots

Version 1.4.0.0 (17.3 MB) by David Eagle
A MATLAB Script for Creating Pork Chop Plots of Ballistic Earth-to-Mars Trajectories
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PDF document and MATLAB script that can be used to create and plot interplanetary “pork chop” plots for Type I and Type II Earth-to-Mars trajectories. These plots illustrate the behavior of launch energy (C3L), right ascension (RLA) and declination (DLA) of the departure hyperbola, time-of-flight, and arrival v-infinity, DLA and RLA for a range of user-defined launch and arrival calendar dates.
The data required for these contour plots is created by solving the heliocentric, two-body “patched-conic” Lambert problem. A patched-conic trajectory ignores the gravitational effect of both the launch and arrivals planets on the heliocentric trajectory. Pork chop plots are typically used for preliminary mission analysis.

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David Eagle (2024). Earth-to-Mars Interplanetary Pork Chop Plots (https://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/fileexchange/39248-earth-to-mars-interplanetary-pork-chop-plots), MATLAB Central File Exchange. Retrieved .

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Version Published Release Notes
1.4.0.0

Updated to use MICE routines and the DE421.bsp ephemeris
1.3.0.0

Added contour plot of total heliocentric delta-v. Updated PDF document.
1.2.0.0

Includes MICE version in porkchop_mice.zip archive.
1.1.0.0

Updated to use the DE421 binary ephemeris file from JPL. PDF document also updated.
1.0.0.0