Influence of the finite duration on a fly-by

Autor: Janssens, Frank
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2008
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Zdroj: 第17回アストロダイナミクスシンポジウム講演後刷り集 2007 = Proceedings of 17th Workshop on JAXA Astrodynamics and Flight Mechanics. :69-83
Popis: Patched conics is the standard tool for designing fly-by or gravity assist maneuvers performed by a spacecraft about a planet. In this procedure, the trajectory of the spacecraft about the planet is taken as a perfect hyperbola once the spacecraft is in the sphere of influence of the planet. All other perturbations are neglected. As a consequence the outgoing V infinity is identical to the incoming V infinity. In reality, the spacecraft spends a finite time in the sphere of influence of the planet. A typical time is a week. The small perturbations caused by the Sun will affect the ideal hyperbolic trajectory. When the fly-by planet is the Earth, the Moon and J2 cause also small changes in the hyperbola. The small changes in V infinity are the subject of this paper. The perturbation of the Sun can be modeled as a restricted three body problem or analyzed with the standard averaging technique applied to an hyperbolic orbit. We compare our results to the real data of the fly-by past the Earth on March 4, 2005 by the Rosetta spacecraft on his way to the comet Churymov-Gerasimenko (2014).
資料番号: AA0063718013
Databáze: OpenAIRE