Automated tour design in the Saturnian system

DOI10.1007/S10569-023-10179-8MaRDI QIDQ6131825zbMATH OpenFDO

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Publication date 18 April 2024

Published in Celestial Mechanics and Dynamical Astronomy (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/2210.14996

zbMATH Keywords

trajectory optimizationgravity assistEnceladusmulti-moon tour

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Mechanics of particles and systems (70-XX)

Abstract: Future missions to Enceladus would benefit from multi-moon tours that leverage V-infinity on resonant orbits to progressively transfer between moons. Such "resonance family hopping" trajectories present a vast search space for global optimization due to the different combinations of available resonances and flyby speeds. The proposed multi-objective tour design algorithm optimizes entire moon tours from Titan to Enceladus via grid-based dynamic programming, in which the computation time is significantly reduced by utilizing a database of V-infinity-leveraging transfers. The result unveils a complete trade space of the moon tour design to Enceladus in a tractable computation time and global optimality.

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