The trajectory concept used here is to flyby Venus and then Mars with moderately high speeds expecting to use both gravity and aeroassisted (wave rider) turns in the atmospheres of the planets in order to form fast trajectories to the planets beyond Jupiter. The first part of the paper contains a description of the development of earth-Venus-Mars trajectories yielding the required speeds at Mars in the interval 2001 to 2015. The second part consists in identifying cases in which Mars is at the proper longitude for each target and obtaining trajectories. Trajectories to Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, and Pluto have been found.
Trajectories to the outer planets using aero-gravity assist flybys of Venus and Mars
AAS/AIAA Astrodynamics Conference ; 1991 ; Durango, CO, United States
1992-01-01
Conference paper
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English
Symmetric Round Trip Flybys to Outer Planets
NTIS | 1969
|Symmetric round trip flybys to outer planets
NTRS | 1969
|Triple-planet ballistic flybys of Mars and Venus.
AIAA | 1969
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