Low-thrust electric propulsion provides many advantages for mission to difficult targets-Comets and asteroids-Mercury-Outer planets (with sufficient power supply)Low-thrust electric propulsion is characterized by high power requirements but also very high specific impulse (Isp), leading to very good mass fractions. Low-thrust trajectory design is a very different process from chemical trajectory.


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    Title :

    Global Optimization of Low-Thrust Interplanetary Trajectories Subject to Operational Constraints


    Contributors:
    J. A. Englander (author) / M. Vavrina (author) / D. Hinckley (author)

    Publication date :

    2016


    Size :

    24 pages


    Type of media :

    Report


    Type of material :

    No indication


    Language :

    English