Speaker
Dr
Scott Evans
(JPL)
Description
MONTE (Mission Design and Operations Navigation Toolkit Environment) is an astrodynamic toolkit produced by the Mission Design and Navigation Software
Group at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory. It supports operational orbit determination
and flight path control for deep space and Earth orbiting flight missions, as well as providing an array of tools that can be used in mission design and analysis. Starting with initial development in 1998, it had a primary goal to encompass into a single software system the capabilities of a large suiteof software including the highly successful DPTRAJ/ODP. Since 2009, the Masar project has funded Monte to include development of mission designcapabilities including trajectory optimization and analysis as well as 3d visualization. It was first used in flight operations starting with the
launch of Phoenix to Mars (2007) and currently is the prime Orbit Determination software for all JPL missions. Monte has also been used to support missions from ESA, JAXA, and ISRO. The mission design capabilities are being used for the design of future missions including Europa/Clipper, Mars 2020, and InSight. Monte has also been used for non-operations tasks including gravity analysis and satellite ephemeris estimation.
Monte is presented to the user as an importable Python-language module. This allows a simple but powerful user interface via CLUI or script. In addition, the Python interface allows Monte to be used seamlessly with other canonical scientific programming tools such as SciPy, NumPy, and matplotlib. This paper gives an overview of the Monte system, a history of its successes to date, and a preview of what's to come for the software.
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Primary author
Dr
Scott Evans
(JPL)
