Chinese Space Science and Technology ›› 2015, Vol. 35 ›› Issue (1): 51-57.doi: 10.3780/j.issn.1000-758X.2015.01.007

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TransferTrajectoriestoL3LibrationPointofSun-EarthSystem

PANXun,PANBinfeng   

  1. (SchoolofAstronautics,NorthwesternPolytechnicalUniversity,Xi′an710072)
  • Received:2014-07-30 Revised:2014-09-16 Published:2015-02-25 Online:2015-02-25

Abstract: AmethodwaspresentedfordesigningthetransfertrajectoriestotheSun-EarthL3periodicorbitsbasedonthepseudomanifoldsinthecircularrestrictedthreebodyproblem.Thedynamicsofthepseudomanifolds,constructedbygivingalargeperturbationtoL1orL2orbits,wereusedtoconstructthetransfers.Threedeterministicmaneuverswererequiredtocompletetheorbittransfer:first,leavethelow  Earth  orbit; second, transferintothepseudomanifold; third, injecttotheL3orbit.Numericalsimulationresultsshowthat, comparedwiththetransfersbasedoninvariantmanifolds,thismethodreducesthetransformationalenergyconsumptionfrom4398m/sto4014m/s, andtheflightdurationisshortenedfrommorethan9yearstolessthan7.3years, thusimprovingtheefficiencyofthespacecraft.

Key words: Circularrestrictedthree-bodyproblem, Orbittransfers, Pseudomanifold, Librationpoint