Design and applications of solar sail periodic orbits in the non-autonomous Earth-Moon system

Maria Heiligers; Malcolm Macdonald; Jeffrey S. Parker

Design and applications of solar sail periodic orbits in the non-autonomous Earth-Moon system

Maria Heiligers, Malcolm Macdonald, Jeffrey S. Parker

Mechanical And Aerospace Engineering

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Abstract

Solar sailing has great potential for a range of high-energy and long duration mis-sions in the Sun-Earth system. This paper extends this potential to the non-autonomous Earth-Moon system through the use of a differential correction scheme, and by selecting suitable in-plane and out-of-plane sail steering laws to develop new families of solar sail libration point orbits that are periodic with the Sun’s motion around the Earth-Moon system. New orbits include those that bifur-cate from the natural Lyapunov, halo and eight-shaped orbit families at the first and second Lagrange points. The potential of these orbits is demonstrated by con-sidering the performance of a subset of orbits for high-latitude Earth observations, lunar far-side communications, and lunar South Pole coverage.

Original language	English
Number of pages	20
Publication status	Published - 10 Aug 2015
Event	AAS/AIAA Astrodynamics Specialist Conference 2015 - Colorado, Vail, United States Duration: 9 Aug 2015 → 13 Aug 2015

Conference

Conference	AAS/AIAA Astrodynamics Specialist Conference 2015
Country	United States
City	Vail
Period	9/08/15 → 13/08/15

Keywords

solar sailing
earth-moon libration points
high latitude observation
lunar south pole observation
lunar far side observation

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