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A review of low-energy transfers

Dutt, Pooja

Low-energy transfers (LET) for lunar and interplanetary missions has received immense attention of the scientific community during the last few decades as its importance was understood by the success of JAXA's Hiten, ESA's SMART-1, NASA's GRAIL and ARTHEMIS missions, and several proposals, like the BepiColombo, Multi-Moon Orbiter and Europa Orbite…

The cislunar low-thrust trajectories via the libration point

Qu, Qingyu; Xu, Ming; Peng, Kun

The low-thrust propulsion will be one of the most important propulsion in the future due to its large specific impulse. Different from traditional low-thrust trajectories (LTTs) yielded by some optimization algorithms, the gradient-based design methodology is investigated for LTTs in this paper with the help of invariant manifolds of

The classification of cislunar trajectories and its applications in the Earth–Moon system

Xu, Ming; Xu, Shijie; Liang, Yuying

This paper considers the evolvement of cislunar transfers and addresses two distinct types, i.e., direct and low-energy transfers based on Apollo and SMART-1 missions. Both direct and low-energy trajectories are discussed systematically in the context of restricted three-body dynamics in this paper. The differences between them are assessed by con…