Sun-perturbed earth-to-moon transfers with low energy and moderate flight time

Celestial Mechanics and Dynamical Astronomy

Volumn 90, Issue 3-4, 2004, Pages 197-212

  Yagasaki, Kazuyuki ^a  

^a GIFU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Chaos; Earth to Moon transfer; Non linear boundary value problem; Numerical continuation; Perturbed three body problem; Space mission design; Stable and unstable manifolds

Indexed keywords

EID: 12744258082     PISSN: 09232958     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10569-004-0406-8     Document Type: Article

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