This paper describes the basic characteristics of circulating (cyclical) orbit design as applied to round-trip transportation of crew and materials between earth and Mars in support of a sustained manned Mars Surface Base. The two main types of nonstopover circulating trajectories are the socalled VISIT orbits and the Up/Down Escalator orbits. Access to the large transportation facilities placed in these orbits is by way of taxi vehicles using hyperbolic rendezvous techniques during the successive encounters with earth and Mars. Specific examples of real trajectory data are presented in explanation of flight times, encounter frequency, hyperbolic velocities, closest approach distances, and Delta V maneuver requirements in both interplanetary and planetocentric space.


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    Title :

    Circulating transportation orbits between earth and Mars


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    Publication date :

    1986-01-01


    Type of media :

    Conference paper


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    English


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    Circulating transportation orbits between earth and Mars

    FRIEDLANDER, A. / NIEHOFF, J. / BYRNES, D. et al. | AIAA | 1986





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