Energy-saving capture at Mars via backward stable orbits

Xiangyu Li; Dong Qiao; Malcolm Macdonald

doi:10.2514/1.G004006

Energy-saving capture at Mars via backward stable orbits

Xiangyu Li, Dong Qiao, Malcolm Macdonald

Mechanical And Aerospace Engineering

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Abstract

The orbit capture, which transfers the spacecraft from the interplanetary trajectory to the target orbit about a celestial body, is a key event in an exploration mission. A low-energy capture strategy, termed ballistic capture, has been developed and applied to lunar transfer, such as Hiten [1] and GRAIL [2]. Such capture exploits the gravitational force of the multi-body system to change the orbit energy of the spacecraft with respect to the target planet from positive to negative.

Original language	English
Number of pages	20
Journal	Journal of Guidance, Control and Dynamics
Volume	42
Issue number	5
Early online date	19 Feb 2019
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.2514/1.G004006
Publication status	Published - 1 May 2019

Keywords

Mars
spacecraft
interplanetary trajectory design
low energy capture strategy

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