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- Title
A Framework for Constructing Transfers Linking Periodic Libration Point Orbits in the Spatial Circular Restricted Three-Body Problem.
- Authors
Haapala, Amanda F.; Howell, Kathleen C.
- Abstract
The Earth-Moon libration points are of interest for future missions and have been proposed for both storage of propellant and supplies for lunar missions and as locations to establish space-based facilities for human missions. Thus, further development of an available transport network in the vicinity of the Moon is valuable. In this investigation, a methodology to search for transfers between periodic lunar libration point orbits is developed, and a catalog of these transfers is established, assuming the dynamics associated with the Earth-Moon circular restricted three-body problem. Maneuver-free transfers, i.e. heteroclinic and homoclinic connections, are considered, as well as transfers that require relatively small levels of . Considering the evolution of Earth-Moon transfers as the mass parameter is reduced, a relationship emerges between the available transfers in the Earth-Moon system and maneuver-free transfers that exist within the Hill three-body problem. The correlation between transfers in these systems is examined and offers insight into the existence of solutions within the catalog. To demonstrate the persistence of the catalog transfers in a higher-fidelity model, several solutions are transitioned to a Sun-Earth-Moon ephemeris model with the inclusion of solar radiation pressure and lunar gravity harmonics. The defining characteristics are preserved in the high-fidelity model, validating both the techniques employed for this investigation and the solutions computed within the catalog.
- Subjects
LAGRANGIAN points; THREE-body problem; EARTH-Moon physics; SPACE flight to the moon; LUNAR gravity; POINCARE maps (Mathematics)
- Publication
International Journal of Bifurcation & Chaos in Applied Sciences & Engineering, 2016, Vol 26, Issue 5, p-1
- ISSN
0218-1274
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1142/S0218127416300135