Comparison of low-energy lunar transfer trajectories to invariant manifolds

2013 ◽  
Vol 115 (3) ◽  
pp. 311-331 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rodney L. Anderson ◽  
Jeffrey S. Parker
Keyword(s):  
Invariant Manifolds ◽  
Low Energy ◽  
Lunar Transfer ◽  
Transfer Trajectories

Navigating THEMIS to the ARTEMIS Low-Energy Lunar Transfer Trajectory

2010 ◽  
Author(s):  
Daniel Cosgrove ◽  
Sabine Frey ◽  
Manfred Bester ◽  
David Folta ◽  
Mark Woodard ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Low Energy ◽  
Transfer Trajectory ◽  
Lunar Transfer

Trajectory Design for the Transfer from the Lissajous Orbit of Sun-Earth System to Asteroids

2013 ◽  
Vol 390 ◽  
pp. 478-484 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ya Min Wang ◽  
Dong Qiao ◽  
Ping Yuan Cui
Keyword(s):  
Energy Transfer ◽  
Perturbation Method ◽  
Design Method ◽  
Low Energy ◽  
Trajectory Design ◽  
Design Issue ◽  
Lissajous Orbit ◽  
Low Energy Transfer ◽  
Three Body ◽  
Transfer Trajectories

This paper investigates the trajectory design issue for the transfer from the Lissajous orbit of CHANGE 2 probe to asteroids. First, an intersection search method, which is a general design method of low-energy transfer trajectories by searching the intersection of unstable and stable manifolds in the circular restricted three-body problem (CRTBP), is applied to produce the zero-cost flyby trajectories for the asteroid flyby missions of CHANGE 2 probe, and the simulation result shows that this method is invalid. Then, for this trajectories design issue, a perturbation method, which consists of a process of searching initial trajectories by applying velocity perturbations in the direction of unstable eigenvectors of the Lissajous orbit and a trajectory correction process with two-level differential correction, is proposed. Finally, the transfer opportunities between the Lissajous orbit of CHANGE 2 and asteroids Toutatis and 2010 JK1 are searched by the perturbation method. The results show that the method proposed in this paper can identify low-energy transfer trajectories for asteroid flyby missions of CHANGE 2. Moreover, this method provides a global understanding of the trend of impulsive maneuvers over the transfer date.

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