Low-energy lunar trajectory design / / Jeffrey S. Parker and Rodney L. Anderson

• Autore: Parker Jeffrey S.
• Pubblicazione: Hoboken, New Jersey : , : Wiley, , 2014; ©2014
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (437 p.)
• Disciplina: 629.4/11
• Soggetto topico: Lunar probes - Trajectories; Space flight to the moon - Cost control
• Persona (resp. second.): AndersonRodney L.
• Note generali: Includes index.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; CONTENTS; Foreword; Preface; Acknowledgments; Authors; 1 Introduction and Executive Summary; 1.1 Purpose; 1.2 Organization; 1.3 Executive Summary; 1.3.1 Direct, Conventional Transfers; 1.3.2 Low-Energy Transfers; 1.3.3 Summary: Low-Energy Transfers to Lunar Libration Orbits; 1.3.4 Summary: Low-Energy Transfers to Low Lunar Orbits; 1.3.5 Summary: Low-Energy Transfers to the Lunar Surface; 1.4 Background; 1.5 The Lunar Transfer Problem; 1.6 Historical Missions; 1.6.1 Missions Implementing Direct Lunar Transfers ; 1.6.2 Low-Energy Missions to the Sun-Earth Lagrange Points1.6.3 Missions Implementing Low-Energy Lunar Transfers; 1.7 Low-Energy Lunar Transfers; 2 Methodology; 2.1 Methodology Introduction; 2.2 Physical Data; 2.3 Time Systems; 2.3.1 Dynamical Time, ET; 2.3.2 International Atomic Time, TAI; 2.3.3 Universal Time, UT; 2.3.4 Coordinated Universal Time, UTC; 2.3.5 Lunar Time; 2.3.6 Local True Solar Time, LTST; 2.3.7 Orbit Local Solar Time, OLST; 2.4 Coordinate Frames; 2.4.1 EME2000; 2.4.2 EMO2000; 2.4.3 Principal Axis Frame; 2.4.4 IAU Frames; 2.4.5 Synodic Frames; 2.5 Models; 2.5.1 CRTBP ; 2.5.2 Patched Three-Body Model2.5.3 JPL Ephemeris; 2.6 Low-Energy Mission Design; 2.6.1 Dynamical Systems Theory; 2.6.2 Solutions to the CRTBP; 2.6.3 Poincaré Maps; 2.6.4 The State Transition and Monodromy Matrices; 2.6.5 Differential Correction; 2.6.6 Constructing Periodic Orbits; 2.6.7 The Continuation Method; 2.6.8 Orbit Stability; 2.6.9 Examples of Practical Three-Body Orbits; 2.6.10 Invariant Manifolds; 2.6.11 Orbit Transfers; 2.6.12 Building Complex Orbit Chains; 2.6.13 Discussion; 2.7 Tools; 2.7.1 Numerical Integrators; 2.7.2 Optimizers; 2.7.3 Software ; 3 Transfers to Lunar Libration Orbits3.1 Executive Summary; 3.2 Introduction; 3.3 Direct Transfers Between Earth and Lunar Libration Orbits; 3.3.1 Methodology; 3.3.2 The Perigee-Point Scenario; 3.3.3 The Open-Point Scenario; 3.3.4 Surveying Direct Lunar Halo Orbit Transfers; 3.3.5 Discussion of Results; 3.3.6 Reducing the ΔV Cost; 3.3.7 Conclusions; 3.4 Low-Energy Transfers Between Earth and Lunar Libration Orbits; 3.4.1 Modeling a Low-Energy Transfer using Dynamical Systems Theory; 3.4.2 Energy Analysis of a Low-Energy Transfer ; 3.4.3 Constructing a Low-Energy Transfer in the Patched Three-Body Model3.4.4 Constructing a Low-Energy Transfer in the Ephemeris Model of the Solar System; 3.4.5 Families of Low-Energy Transfers; 3.4.6 Monthly Variations in Low-Energy Transfers; 3.4.7 Transfers to Other Three-Body Orbits; 3.5 Three-Body Orbit Transfers; 3.5.1 Transfers from an LL2 Halo Orbit to a Low Lunar Orbit; 4 Transfers to Low Lunar Orbits; 4.1 Executive Summary; 4.2 Introduction; 4.3 Direct Transfers Between Earth and Low Lunar Orbit; 4.4 Low-Energy Transfers Between Earth and Low Lunar Orbit; 4.4.1 Methodology ; 4.4.2 Example Survey
• Sommario/riassunto: <ul><li>Surveys thousands of possible trajectories that may be used to transfer spacecraft between Earth and the moon, including transfers to lunar libration orbits, low lunar orbits, and the lunar surface</li><li>Provides information about the methods, models, and tools used to design low-energy lunar transfers</li><li>Includes discussion about the variations of these transfers from one month to the next, and the important operational aspects of implementing a low-energy lunar transfer</li><li>Additional discussions address navigation, station-keeping, and spacecraft systems issues</li></ul>
• Titolo autorizzato: Low-energy lunar trajectory design
• ISBN: 1-118-85531-0; 1-118-85506-X; 1-118-85497-7
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910808679703321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Deep-space communications and navigation series.