Moons of the outer planets offer some of the greatest potential scientific treasures in the solar system, yet they are exceedingly hard to reach. A previous work found many low-energy landing trajectories to various moons in the solar system by studying the unstable manifolds of Lyapunov, vertical, and halo periodic orbits. A potential shortcoming of this approach is the lack of abort options for a landing mission. If anything goes wrong prior to landing, there may not be an solution if the spacecraft has already departed the periodic orbit. Similarly, a solution which could return to its initially planned landing site could also perform observation flybys prior to landing to ensure the safety of the site. In the current work, we discuss a new strategy for finding periodic orbits that tangentially intersect the surface of Europa and are themselves either stable or nearly-stable. These qualities may allow certain periodic orbits to act as their own abort solutions or to closely observe their landing sites prior to landing. 18 such periodic orbits that have been identified so far are presented here.


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    Titel :

    Periodic Orbits As Viable Landing Solutions with an Abort Option at Europa


    Beteiligte:
    Martin, W. Lo (Autor:in) / McMahon, Jay (Autor:in) / Bury, Luke (Autor:in)

    Erscheinungsdatum :

    2021-08-09


    Medientyp :

    Preprint


    Format :

    Keine Angabe


    Sprache :

    Englisch



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