The rising interest in a mission to the Sun-Earth L5 point for heliophysics or Trojan asteroid search and the development of solar sails has opened the question of using solar radiation pressure for such a mission. Different solar sail trajectories to the Sun-Earth L5 point are constructed. Different invariant objects in the neighbourhood of Earth are considered for departure: equilibrium points, families of periodic orbits and their associated invariant manifold. Using a multi-objective genetic algorithm, differential correction and the optimal control solver PSOPT the transfers are obtained. The approach followed results in fast solar sail transfers which can be used for the preliminary design of a mission to the Sun-Earth L5 point.


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    Title :

    Solar Sail Transfers from Invariant Objects to L5 Periodic Orbits


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    Conference:

    International Conference on Astrodynamics Tools and Techniques (ICATT) ; 2018 ; Oberpfaffenhofen, Germany


    Publication date :

    2018-11-06


    Type of media :

    Conference paper


    Type of material :

    No indication


    Language :

    English




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