Spacecraft Control During The Descent to The Surface of Jupiter's Satellite Callisto

The work study the landing of a spacecraft on the Jupiter satellite Callisto with minimal energy costs, and the minimum required thrust of the engines and the duration of the soft landing maneuver of a spacecraft with a given mass on the satellite were estimated. A distinctive feature of this study is taking into account the weak atmosphere of Callisto, which, however, in the immediate vicinity of the surface has a noticeable aerodynamic drag. Motion modeling was carried out numerically; all the graphical dependencies necessary for motion analysis were built.