Toward immersive spacecraft trajectory design: Mapping user drawings to natural periodic orbits

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dhathri H. Somavarapu ◽  
Davide Guzzetti
Keyword(s):  
Periodic Orbits ◽  
Trajectory Design ◽  
Spacecraft Trajectory

V-Infinity Leveraging Boundary-Value Problem and Application in Spacecraft Trajectory Design

2015 ◽  
Vol 52 (3) ◽  
pp. 697-710 ◽  
Author(s):  
Demyan V. Lantukh ◽  
Ryan P. Russell ◽  
Stefano Campagnola
Keyword(s):  
Boundary Value Problem ◽  
Boundary Value ◽  
Trajectory Design ◽  
Spacecraft Trajectory

scholarly journals Hybrid Low Thrust Propulsion Trajectory Design and Optimization Using Virtual Gravity Method

2018 ◽  
Vol 36 (4) ◽  
pp. 618-626 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chong Sun ◽  
Jianping Yuan ◽  
Qun Fang ◽  
Yao Cui ◽  
Mingxiao Wang ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Electric Propulsion ◽  
Design Method ◽  
Trajectory Design ◽  
Low Thrust ◽  
Design And Optimization ◽  
Solar Electric Propulsion ◽  
Spacecraft Trajectory ◽  
Rendezvous Problem ◽  
Steering Law ◽  
Thrust System

a novel spacecraft trajectory design method using hybrid low thrust system is proposed in this paper. The hybrid system is constituted with a solar sail propulsion thruster and a solar electric propulsion thruster. In proposed method, the former one provides radical thrust and circumferential thrust to from a virtual gravity, while the later one provides a tangential thrust. In this way, the spacecraft is virtually motioned by constant tangential thrust in a virtual gravity field. Using proposed method, the thrusting trajectory can be parameterized, and a large number of feasible trajectories for circle to circle rendezvous problem can be obtained. To the end the steering law to minimize the fuel cost is found using Matlab optimization tools Fmicon function, and the result is compared with traditional pure solar electric propulsion method in terms of payload mass fraction. The simulation results show that the proposed method can reduced propellant consumption significantly compared with the pure SEP system.

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