On the Lambert problem with drag

DOI10.1134/S156035472304010XMaRDI QIDQ6069636zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Antonio J. Ureña

Publication date 14 November 2023

Published in Regular and Chaotic Dynamics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/2302.06334

zbMATH Keywords

boundary value problemcollision singularityDirichlet boundary conditionfrictionKeplerian arcuniqueness

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Two-body problems (70F05) Collisions in celestial mechanics, regularization (70F16) Problems involving a system of particles with friction (70F40)

Abstract: The Lambert problem consists in connecting two given points in a given lapse of time under the gravitational influence of a fixed center. While this problem is very classical, we are concerned here with situations where friction forces act alongside the Newtonian attraction. Under some boundedness assumptions on the friction, there exists exactly one rectilinear solution if the two points lie on the same ray, and at least two solutions travelling in opposite directions otherwise.

Review text

The Lambert problem consists in finding a Keplerian orbit going from a point A to a point B in a given flight time T. One should first ask if such an orbit exists and if it is unique. The answer is surprisingly uniform. It is nearly independent of the parameters A and B. The number of solutions depends in a simple, monotone way of T. The author reviews the old history of the question and recent complete proofs. He extends several proofs to the case where the orbiting body is subjected to a linear drag. The author proposes a simple formula for this drag, together with simple boundedness conditions, and proves the existence of the simple Keplerian arc. He discusses the uniqueness and proves it in the case of a vertical trajectory. The singularity of the problem due to the possibility of a collision of the orbiting body with the center of gravitational attraction is carefully discussed and analytically resolved.

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