TY - GEN
T1 - Design of transfer trajectories between planar and spatial quasi-satellite orbits
AU - Pushparaj, Nishanth
AU - Baresi, Nicola
AU - Kawakatsu, Yasuhiro
N1 - Funding Information:
Nishanth Pushparaj is supported by SOKENDAI (Academic-Research Activities Grant) and Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (Monbukagakusho:MEXT) scholarship from the Government of Japan throughout this study.
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PY - 2020
Y1 - 2020
N2 - Stable Quasi-Satellite Orbits (QSOs) have gained a lot of attention as suitable candidate orbits to explore remote planetary moons. Despite many studies on QSO and its orbital stability are found in literature, the problem of efficient transfer between two QSO is still unsolved. Previous works on transfers between two QSOs includes transfers between planar QSOs using impulsive maneuvers and utilizing the bifurcated multiple-revolutional periodic QSOs (MP-QSOs). Purpose of this paper is to explore the three-dimensional case and design transfer trajectories from lower altitude QSOs to three-dimensional QSOs being considered for upcoming sample return missions like Martian Moons eXploration (MMX) and PHOOT-PRINT. Specifically, we utilize the unstable 3D QSO to generate manifolds and connect them to the planar QSO in the framework of Mars-Phobos Circular Hill Problem with Ellipsoidal secondary (HPE). Numerical simulations suggest that transfer between a planar and spatial QSO around Phobos is possible with ∆V as low as 8.277 m/s with TOF of 4.19 days and similarly transfer between a spatial and planar QSO with ∆V of 8.286 m/s with TOF of 6.75 days. As a result, transfer design space between planar and spatial QSOs is established using the invariant manifolds.
AB - Stable Quasi-Satellite Orbits (QSOs) have gained a lot of attention as suitable candidate orbits to explore remote planetary moons. Despite many studies on QSO and its orbital stability are found in literature, the problem of efficient transfer between two QSO is still unsolved. Previous works on transfers between two QSOs includes transfers between planar QSOs using impulsive maneuvers and utilizing the bifurcated multiple-revolutional periodic QSOs (MP-QSOs). Purpose of this paper is to explore the three-dimensional case and design transfer trajectories from lower altitude QSOs to three-dimensional QSOs being considered for upcoming sample return missions like Martian Moons eXploration (MMX) and PHOOT-PRINT. Specifically, we utilize the unstable 3D QSO to generate manifolds and connect them to the planar QSO in the framework of Mars-Phobos Circular Hill Problem with Ellipsoidal secondary (HPE). Numerical simulations suggest that transfer between a planar and spatial QSO around Phobos is possible with ∆V as low as 8.277 m/s with TOF of 4.19 days and similarly transfer between a spatial and planar QSO with ∆V of 8.286 m/s with TOF of 6.75 days. As a result, transfer design space between planar and spatial QSOs is established using the invariant manifolds.
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U2 - 10.2514/6.2020-2179
DO - 10.2514/6.2020-2179
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85092393084
SN - 9781624105951
T3 - AIAA Scitech 2020 Forum
SP - 1
EP - 13
BT - AIAA Scitech 2020 Forum
PB - American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics Inc, AIAA
T2 - AIAA Scitech Forum, 2020
Y2 - 6 January 2020 through 10 January 2020
ER -