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Published 2004 | Published
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Application of dynamical systems theory to a very low energy transfer

Abstract

We use lobe dynamics in the restricted three-body problem to design orbits with prescribed itineraries with respect to the resonance regions within a Hill's region. The application we envision is the design of a low energy trajectory to orbit three of Jupiter's moons using the patched three-body approximation (P3BA). We introduce the "switching region," the P3BA analogue to the "sphere of influence." Numerical results are given for the problem of finding the fastest trajectory from an initial region of phase space (escape orbits from moon A) to a target region (orbits captured by moon B) using small controls.

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© 2004 by S. D. Ross, W. S. Koon, M. W. Lo, and J. E. Marsden. Permission to publish granted to The American Astronautical Society. This work was carried out in part at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory and California Institute of Technology under a contract with the National Aeronautics and Space Administration. In addition, the work was partially supported by the Caltech President's Fund.

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