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| author | Merrill, Colby C. Kulik, Jackson Bryan, Matthew J. Savransky, Dmitry |
| author_facet | Merrill, Colby C. Kulik, Jackson Bryan, Matthew J. Savransky, Dmitry |
| contents | In Cislunar space, spacecraft are able to exploit naturally periodic orbits, which provide operational reliability. However, these periodic orbits only exist in a limited volume. Enabled by low-thrust propulsion, spacecraft can produce a greater number of periodic trajectories in Cislunar space. We describe a methodology for producing mass-optimal trajectories that enforce periodic structure in the circular-restricted three body problem and study the thrust-limited reachable set around a reference trajectory. In this study, we find that the thrust-limited mass-optimal reachable set is a superset of the energy-limited energy-optimal reachable set in the xy-plane. |
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| publishDate | 2025 |
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| spellingShingle | Mass-Optimal Low-Thrust Forced Periodic Trajectories in the Earth-Moon CR3BP Merrill, Colby C. Kulik, Jackson Bryan, Matthew J. Savransky, Dmitry Dynamical Systems In Cislunar space, spacecraft are able to exploit naturally periodic orbits, which provide operational reliability. However, these periodic orbits only exist in a limited volume. Enabled by low-thrust propulsion, spacecraft can produce a greater number of periodic trajectories in Cislunar space. We describe a methodology for producing mass-optimal trajectories that enforce periodic structure in the circular-restricted three body problem and study the thrust-limited reachable set around a reference trajectory. In this study, we find that the thrust-limited mass-optimal reachable set is a superset of the energy-limited energy-optimal reachable set in the xy-plane. |
| title | Mass-Optimal Low-Thrust Forced Periodic Trajectories in the Earth-Moon CR3BP |
| topic | Dynamical Systems |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2502.05140 |