Interplanetary Mission Analysis and Design
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book ‘Interplanetary Mission Analysis and Design’ by Stephen Kemble, 2006
Springer-Praxis series in Astronautical Engineering
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Table of Contents
1 INTERPLANETARY
MISSIONS
1.1 FUNDAMENTALS OF INTERPLANETARY MISSIONS
1.2 LEAVING A PLANET
1.3 PLANET ORBIT SELECTION AND INSERTION
1.4 TRANSFERS THROUGH THE SOLAR SYSTEM
1.5 RETURN MISSIONS TO THE PLANETS
2 SPACECRAFT
PROPULSION
2.1 PROPULSION BASICS
2.2 HIGH THRUST SYSTEMS
2.3 LOW THRUST SYSTEMS
2.4 PROPULSION SYSTEM CHOICE
3 OPTIMISATION
3.1 THE TRAJECTORY OPTIMISATION PROBLEM
3.2 TRAJECTORY OPTIMISATION METHODS
3.3 APPLICATION OF DIRECT TRAJECTORY
OPTIMISATION METHODS
3.4 COMBINING SYSTEM AND TRAJECTORY
OPTIMISATIONS: THE OPTIMAL TRANSPORT PROBLEM
4 SPECIAL
TECHNIQUES
4.1 MOTION IN MULTI-BODY GRAVITY FIELDS
4.2 ESCAPE FROM A PLANET
4.3 PRINCIPLES OF GRAVITY ASSIST MANOEUVRES
4.4 THE VARIATIONAL EQUATIONS OF LAGRANGE AND
GAUSS
4.5 LOW THRUST TRANSFERS
4.6 LOW THRUST FOR PLANETARY ESCAPE AND
CAPTURE
4.7 COMBINING LOW-THRUST WITH GRAVITY ASSIST
4.8 USING MULTI-BODY GRAVITY PERTURBATIONS
4.9 AEROCAPTURE AND AEROBRAKING
5 MISSIONS TO
THE PLANETS
5.1 INTERPLANETARY MISSIONS USING GRAVITY
ASSIST
5.2 LOW THRUST MISSIONS
5.3 MISSIONS USING GRAVITY ESCAPE AND CAPTURE
APPENDIX 1: KEPLERIAN
ORBITS
APPENDIX 2: FRAMES OF
REFERENCE
APPENDIX 3: THE PLANETS
APPENDIX 4: OPTMIMISING
LAUCHER INJECTION
Description
The diverse range of possibilities for interplanetary
missions requires numerous techniques for their analysis and design. These are
considered in this book, including the key issues of escaping from a planet,
interplanetary transfer and capture at a target planet. Certain ‘classical’
methods for the design of such trajectories have been employed for many years.
As missions become more demanding, new techniques have been developed to enable
more efficient designs to be realised. These may fully utilise newly evolving
propulsion technologies.
The objective of this book is to describe a selection of
techniques that may be applied to the analysis and design of interplanetary
missions. The focus is on methods that enable the efficient solution of the
problems considered. Details of the methods are given.
A CD is included providing examples of interplanetary in
the form of datafiles that may be used in conjunction with an animated
trajectory visualisation tool also supplied
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revised: 03 July 2006