Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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10680835 | Acta Astronautica | 2014 | 9 Pages |
Abstract
Triple-satellite-aided capture employs gravity-assist flybys of three of the Galilean moons of Jupiter in order to decrease the amount of ÎV required to capture a spacecraft into Jupiter orbit. Similarly, triple flybys can be used within a Jupiter satellite tour to rapidly modify the orbital parameters of a Jovicentric orbit, or to increase the number of science flybys. In order to provide a nearly comprehensive search of the solution space of Callisto-Ganymede-Io triple flybys from 2024 to 2040, a third-order, Chebyshev's method variant of the p-iteration solution to Lambert's problem is paired with a second-order, Newton-Raphson method, time of flight iteration solution to the Vâ-matching problem. The iterative solutions of these problems provide the orbital parameters of the Callisto-Ganymede transfer, the Ganymede flyby, and the Ganymede-Io transfer, but the characteristics of the Callisto and Io flybys are unconstrained, so they are permitted to vary in order to produce an even larger number of trajectory solutions. The vast amount of solution data is searched to find the best triple-satellite-aided capture window between 2024 and 2040.
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Authors
Alfred E. Lynam,