Exploration of distant retrograde orbits around Moon

Xu Ming; Xu Shijie

doi:10.1016/j.actaastro.2009.03.026

Exploration of distant retrograde orbits around Moon

Xu Ming^*
, Xu Shijie

^*Corresponding author for this work

DFH Satellite Co., Ltd.
Beihang University

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Abstract

This paper deals with the cislunar transfer problem. A new type of distant retrograde orbit (DRO) is proposed and its stability is investigated. The Lyapunov orbits tangential to the retrograde orbit are applied to design the entry of transfer trajectories, i.e., the invariant manifolds of Lyapunov orbit around L₁ are applied to achieve the quick transfer to DRO, meanwhile the Lyapunov orbit around L₂ is used as the entrance to weak stability boundary (WSB) transfer, so that the low energy transfer to DRO is achieved. The numerical simulations is given to validated the feasibility of the two transfer modes.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	853-860
Number of pages	8
Journal	Acta Astronautica
Volume	65
Issue number	5-6
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.actaastro.2009.03.026
State	Published - Sep 2009
Externally published	Yes

Keywords

Cislunar transfer
Distant retrograde orbit (DRO)
Libration point
Lyapunov orbit
Weak stability boundary (WSB) transfer

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