Higher altitude orbits (in the 500 to 20,000 km range) at the Moon are dominated by Earth perturbations and result in motions that do not ascribe to the standard notions of orbits dominated by nonspherical gravity effects (such as from oblateness). This fact complicates orbit design of lunar orbiter constellations that require specific and persistent coverage over a selected lunar region. Using a combination of analytical theory and numerical simulation, a technique is developed for designing a lunar constellation of three spacecraft where two spacecraft are always in view from the lunar surface for the polar regions.


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    Titel :

    Stable Constellations of Frozen Elliptical Inclined Lunar Orbits


    Weitere Titelangaben:

    J of Astronaut Sci


    Beteiligte:
    Ely, Todd A. (Autor:in)

    Erschienen in:

    Erscheinungsdatum :

    2005-09-01


    Format / Umfang :

    16 pages




    Medientyp :

    Aufsatz (Zeitschrift)


    Format :

    Elektronische Ressource


    Sprache :

    Englisch