Design and optimization of low-thrust orbit transfers

IEEE Aerospace Conference Proceedings

Volumn 2005, Issue , 2005, Pages 855-869

  Lee, Seungwon ^a   Von Allmen, Paul ^a   Fink, Wolfgang ^a   Petropoulos, Anastassios E ^a   Terrile, Richard J ^a  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EVOLUTIONARY ALGORITHMS; FEEDBACK CONTROL; LOGIC DESIGN; LYAPUNOV METHODS; OPTIMIZATION; SPACE RESEARCH;

LOW THRUST ORBIT TRANSFERS; LYAPUNOV FEEDBACK CONTROL LAW; MULTI REVOLUTION ORBIT TRANSFERS; NASA;

ORBITAL TRANSFER;

EID: 33751526527     PISSN: 1095323X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/AERO.2005.1559377     Document Type: Conference Paper

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17. In Ref. [16], solutions are sought to a different orbit transfer around Vesta than the one sought here. Although the initial orbits are identical, the final orbits differ. Ref. [16] shows that the transfer being solved there is infeasible in 25 days when Vesta is treated as a point mass (but not when a full gravity field is included); the final orbit used here in Case D is the orbit reached in Ref. [16] after 25 days of thrusting. This 25-day transfer of Ref. [16] is an optimal transfer between the initialorbit and the orbit reached after the 25 days, and so we compare our Case D to it.
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