Method for placing a spacecraft into a lunar orbit, either by standard (i.e., impulsive) or ballistic (i.e., non-impulsive) capture, from an Earth orbit that is significantly inclined relative to the lunar orbit plane, with no constraint on the local time of perigee for the starting orbit.
Method for transferring a spacecraft from geosynchronous transfer orbit to lunar orbit
2020-06-30
Patent
Electronic Resource
English
IPC: | B64G Raumfahrt , COSMONAUTICS |
THRUSTER ARRANGEMENT FOR GEOSYNCHRONOUS ORBIT SPACECRAFT
European Patent Office | 2017
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