Dynamics and Mission Design Near Libration Points: Advanced methods for collinear points

Download or read book Dynamics and Mission Design Near Libration Points: Advanced methods for collinear points written by Gerard G¢mez and published by World Scientific. This book was released on 2001 with total page 203 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book studies several problems related to the analysis of planned or possible spacecraft missions. It is divided into four chapters. The first chapter is devoted to the computation of quasiperiodic solutions for the motion of a spacecraft near the equilateral points of the Earth-Moon system. The second chapter gives a complete description of the orbits near the collinear point, 1, between the Earth and the Sun in the restricted three-body problem (RTBP) model. In the third chapter, methods are developed to compute the nominal orbit and to design and test the control strategy for the quasiperiodic halo orbits. In the last chapter, the transfer from the Earth to a halo orbit is studied.