On target for Venus - Set oriented computation of energy efficient low thrust trajectories

Celestial Mechanics and Dynamical Astronomy

Volumn 95, Issue 1-4, 2006, Pages 357-370

  Dellnitz, Michael ^a   Junge, Oliver ^b   Post, Marcus ^a   Thiere, Bianca ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PADERBORN   (Germany)

^b TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Dynamical system; Earth venus transfer; Invariant manifold; Low thrust trajectory; Reachable set; Set oriented numerics; Space mission design; Three body problem

Indexed keywords

EID: 33749324807     PISSN: 09232958     EISSN: 15729478     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10569-006-9008-y     Document Type: Conference Paper

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