Star Searches for Patched-Conic Trajectories
Star Searches for Patched-Conic Trajectories
- New search for: Landau, Damon
- Further information on Landau, Damon:
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https://orcid.org/http://orcid.org/0000-0002-2085-7402
- New search for: Campagnola, Stefano
- New search for: Pellegrini, Etienne
- New search for: Landau, Damon
- Further information on Landau, Damon:
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https://orcid.org/http://orcid.org/0000-0002-2085-7402
- New search for: Campagnola, Stefano
- New search for: Pellegrini, Etienne
Star is a mission design tool that globally searches for patched-conic trajectories that satisfy a set of user-defined constraints. It has been used to develop dozens of mission concepts at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory spanning multi-target rendezvous, sample return, multiple gravity assists (ballistic, high- and low-thrust), central-body switch to escape Earth or capture at a planet, planetary moon tours, and small-body tours sequenced from a pool of thousands of candidate targets. Star exhibits polynomial algorithmic complexity by constructing trajectories from independently computed encounter times, transfer legs, and flybys. Example missions of a ballistic transfer to Titan, tour of the Trojan asteroids, and low-thrust rendezvous with Mercury demonstrate the efficacy of the tool.
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Star Searches for Patched-Conic Trajectories
J Astronaut Sci
The Journal of the Astronautical Sciences ; 69 , 6 ; 1613-1648
2022-12-01
36 pages
Article (Journal)
Electronic Resource
English