The Origins' Next Generation Space Telescope (NGST) trajectory design is addressed in light of improved methods for attaining constrained orbit parameters and their control at the exterior collinear libration point, L2. The use of a dynamical systems approach, state-space equations for initial libration orbit control, and optimization to achieve constrained orbit parameters are emphasized. The NGST trajectory design encompasses a direct transfer and orbit maintenance under a constant acceleration. A dynamical systems approach can be used to provide a biased orbit and stationkeeping maintenance method that incorporates the constraint of a single axis correction scheme.
Trajectory Design Strategies for the NGST L2 Libration Point Mission
Space Flight Mechanics ; 2001 ; Santa Barbara, CA, United States
01.01.2001
Preprint
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Englisch
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