| Autor: |
Vasile, Massimiliano, Campagnola, Stefano |
| Rok vydání: |
2011 |
| Předmět: |
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| Zdroj: |
Journal of the British Interplanetary Society, Vol. 62, No. 1, pp. 15-31, 2009 |
| Druh dokumentu: |
Working Paper |
| Popis: |
This paper presents the design of a mission to Europa using solar electric propulsion as main source of thrust. A direct transcription method based on Finite Elements in Time was used for the design and optimisation of the entire low-thrust gravity assist transfer from the Earth to Europa. Prior to that, a global search algorithm was used to generate a set of suitable first guess solutions for the transfer to Jupiter, and for the capture in the Jovian system. In particular, a fast deterministic search algorithm was developed to find the most promising set of swing-bys to reach Jupiter A second fast search algorithm was developed to find the best sequence of swing-bys of the Jovian moons. After introducing the global search algorithms and the direct transcription through Finite Elements in Time, the paper presents a number of first guess Solutions and a fully optimised transfer from the Earth to Europa. |
| Databáze: |
arXiv |
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