Minimum-fuel trajectories from a low earth parking orbit to a low moon orbit are obtained for a low-thrust power-limited spacecraft with thrust acceleration levels of the order of 0.001 G. The trajectories are found by matching an earth spiral to a moon spiral at some intermediate distance. Results are given for the planar case and for the three-dimensional case where the moon orbit is polar.
Minimum fuel lunar trajectories for a low-thrust power-limited spacecraft
AIAA/AAS Astrodynamics Conference ; 1990 ; Portland, OR, United States
1990-01-01
Conference paper
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English
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