Tutorials

General Mission Analysis Tool

Tutorials

The Tutorials section contains in-depth tutorials that show you how to use GMAT for end-to-end analysis. The tutorials are designed to teach you how to use GMAT in the context of performing real-world analysis and are intended to take between 30 minutes and several hours to complete. Each tutorial has a difficulty level and an approximate duration listed with any prerequisites in its introduction, and are arranged in a general order of difficulty.

Here is a summary of selected Tutorials. For a complete list of tutorials see the Tutorials chapter.

The Simulating an Orbit tutorial is the first tutorial you should take to learn how to use GMAT to solve mission design problems. You will learn how to specify an orbit and propagate to orbit periapsis.

The Mars B-Plane Targeting tutorial shows how to use GMAT to design a Mars transfer trajectory by targeting desired B-plane conditions at Mars.

The Target Finite Burn to Raise Apogee tutorial shows how to raise orbit apogee using finite maneuver targeting.