Free-return cycler trajectories repeatedly shuttle a spacecraft between two bodies using little or no fuel. Here, the cycler architecture is proposed as a complementary and alternative method for designing planetary moon tours. Previously applied enumerative cycler search and optimization techniques are generalized and specifically implemented in the Jovian and Saturnian moon systems. In addition, the algorithms are tested for general use to find non-Earth heliocentric cyclers. Overall, hundreds of ideal model ballistic cycler geometries are found and several representative cases are documented and discussed. Many of the ideal model solutions are found to remain ballistic in a zero radius sphere of influence patched conic ephemeris model, and preliminary work in a high-fidelity fully integrated model demonstrates near-ballistic cycles for several example cases.
Planetary Moon Cycler Trajectories
AAS/AIAA Space Flight Mechanics Meeting ; 2007 ; Sedona, AZ, United States
2007-01-28
Preprint
Keine Angabe
Englisch
Enceladus , Cycler , Titan , ballistic , trajectory , planetary moons , Astronomy
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