The Genesis Trajectory and Heteroclinic Connections
Genesis will be NASA's first robotic sample return mission to return to the Earth.
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Lo, M.
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The Genesis Trajectory and Heteroclinic Cycles
The Genesis Mission will be NASA's first robotic sample return mission. The purpose of this mission is to collect solar wind samples for two years in L1 halo orbit and return it to the Utah Test and Training Range (UTTR) for mid-air retrieval by helicopters.
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Heteroclinic Connections Between Periodic Orbits and Resonance Transitions in Celestial Mechanics
This paper applies dynamical systems techniques to the problem of heteroclinic connections and resonance transitions in the planar circular restricted three-body problem.
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Sattelite-Constellation Design
The importance of communications satellite constellations cannot be overstated. In one fell swoop, such a constellation can provide an under developed region without a modern communication infrastructure with an instant modern communications network.
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Genesis Mission Design
The Genesis spacecraft will collect solar wind samples from a halo orbit about the Sun-Earth L1 point for two years, returning those samples to Earth in 2003 for on-Earth analysis and examination.
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Low Energy Interplanetary Transfers Using the Invariant Manifolds of L(sub 1), L(sub 2) and Halo Orbits
The invariant manifolds associated with the outer planets are extremely large objects in phase space. They are trajectories in the ecliptic which intersect one another. This enables a low energy single impulse transfer between the planets which requries several orbital periods.
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An Application of Ergodic Theory to the Forecast of Satellite to Ground Station View Periods
Planners for the Deep Space Network at JPL require long-term forecasts of ground station view periods.
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Getting to the Lunar Libration Points
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