TY - JOUR
T1 - Escape trajectories from the L2 point of the earth-moon system
AU - Tanaka, Keita
AU - Kawaguchi, Jun'Ichiro
PY - 2014/7
Y1 - 2014/7
N2 - To use the L2 point of the Earth-Moon (EM) system as a space transportation hub, it is absolutely necessary to know the available orbital energy of a spacecraft departing from EM L2 and how to obtain required excess velocity to the target planet. This paper presents a successful acceleration strategy using the combination of an impulsive maneuver and the Sun gravitational perturbation. Applying this strategy enables the spacecraft to efficiently convert the energy of the maneuver into its orbital energy.
AB - To use the L2 point of the Earth-Moon (EM) system as a space transportation hub, it is absolutely necessary to know the available orbital energy of a spacecraft departing from EM L2 and how to obtain required excess velocity to the target planet. This paper presents a successful acceleration strategy using the combination of an impulsive maneuver and the Sun gravitational perturbation. Applying this strategy enables the spacecraft to efficiently convert the energy of the maneuver into its orbital energy.
KW - Escape Trajectories
KW - Sun-Earth-Moon Four-Body Problem
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84904654945&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.2322/tjsass.57.238
DO - 10.2322/tjsass.57.238
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:84904654945
SN - 0549-3811
VL - 57
SP - 238
EP - 244
JO - Transactions of the Japan Society for Aeronautical and Space Sciences
JF - Transactions of the Japan Society for Aeronautical and Space Sciences
IS - 4
ER -