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.
Global Optimization of Low-Thrust Interplanetary Trajectories Subject to Operational Constraints
2016
24 pages
Report
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English
Optimization of Interplanetary Trajectories for a Limited-Thrust Spacecraft
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