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
AAS/AIAA Space Flight Mechanics Meeting ; 2016 ; NAPA, CA, United States
2016-02-16
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Method of continuation for optimization of interplanetary low-thrust trajectories
Springer Verlag | 2012
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