Reachable and controllable sets for electric propulsion spacecraft are important to many problems including: dynamic replanning, robust mission design, space situational awareness, assessing advanced concepts, and threat assessments. Current methods result in a two-point boundary value problem or are limited in their application. The reachable and controllable problem is solved using an multistage indirect approach. The paper demonstrates our formulation enables rapid, reliable, and autonomous estimates of the reachable and controllable sets. Numerical examples show that the algorithms work in strong multibody environments (i.e., flybys) and incorporates uncertainty in initial conditions. These conditions make the algorithm suitable for space situational awareness and cislunar applications.


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    Title :

    Rapid and Automatic Reachability Estimation of Electric Propulsion Spacecraft


    Additional title:

    J Astronaut Sci


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    Publication date :

    2023-11-02




    Type of media :

    Article (Journal)


    Type of material :

    Electronic Resource


    Language :

    English




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