Europa Orbiter Mission Design Overview
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D'Amario, L.
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Mission Design Overview for Mars Sample Return
In May 2003, a new and exciting chapter in Mars exploration will begin with a launch that will ultimately lead to the delivery of samples from the Red Planet to Earth.
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Minimum impulse three-body trajectories.
A rapid and accurate method of calculating optimal impulsive transfers in the restricted problem of three bodies has been developed. The technique combines a multi-conic method of trajectory integration with primer vector theory and an accelerated gradient method of trajectory optimization. A unique feature is that the state transition matrix and the primer vector are found analytical without additional integrations or differentiations. The method has been applied to the determination of optimal two and three impulse transfers between the L2 libration point and circular orbits about both the earth and the moon.
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