Symplectic geometry and space mission design

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Auteurs principaux: Aydin, Cengiz, Frauenfelder, Urs, van Koert, Otto, Koh, Dayung, Moreno, Agustin
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author Aydin, Cengiz
Frauenfelder, Urs
van Koert, Otto
Koh, Dayung
Moreno, Agustin
author_facet Aydin, Cengiz
Frauenfelder, Urs
van Koert, Otto
Koh, Dayung
Moreno, Agustin
contents Using methods from symplectic geometry, the second and fifth authors have provided theoretical groundwork and tools aimed at analyzing periodic orbits, their stability and their bifurcations in families, for the purpose of space mission design. The Broucke stability diagram was refined, and the "Floer numerical invariants" where considered, as numbers which stay invariant before and after a bifurcation, and therefore serve as tests for the algorithms used. These tools were later employed for numerical studies. In this article, we will further illustrate these methods with numerical studies of families of orbits for the Jupiter-Europa and Saturn-Enceladus systems, with emphasis on planar-to-spatial bifurcations, from deformation of the families in Hill's lunar problem studied by the first author. We will also provide an algorithm for the numerical computation of Conley--Zehnder indices, which are instrumental in practice for determining which families of orbits connect to which. As an application, we use our tools to study a family of periodic orbits that approaches Enceladus at an altitude of 29km, and therefore may be used in future space missions to visit the water plumes.
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spellingShingle Symplectic geometry and space mission design
Aydin, Cengiz
Frauenfelder, Urs
van Koert, Otto
Koh, Dayung
Moreno, Agustin
Symplectic Geometry
Dynamical Systems
Using methods from symplectic geometry, the second and fifth authors have provided theoretical groundwork and tools aimed at analyzing periodic orbits, their stability and their bifurcations in families, for the purpose of space mission design. The Broucke stability diagram was refined, and the "Floer numerical invariants" where considered, as numbers which stay invariant before and after a bifurcation, and therefore serve as tests for the algorithms used. These tools were later employed for numerical studies. In this article, we will further illustrate these methods with numerical studies of families of orbits for the Jupiter-Europa and Saturn-Enceladus systems, with emphasis on planar-to-spatial bifurcations, from deformation of the families in Hill's lunar problem studied by the first author. We will also provide an algorithm for the numerical computation of Conley--Zehnder indices, which are instrumental in practice for determining which families of orbits connect to which. As an application, we use our tools to study a family of periodic orbits that approaches Enceladus at an altitude of 29km, and therefore may be used in future space missions to visit the water plumes.
title Symplectic geometry and space mission design
topic Symplectic Geometry
Dynamical Systems
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2308.03391