Solar-sail transfers to Earth-Moon L2-displaced vertical Lyapunov orbits

• Main Author: van den Oever, Tom (author)
• Other Authors: Heiligers, M.J. (mentor), Delft University of Technology (degree granting institution)
• Format: Master Thesis
• Language: English
• Published: 2018
• Subjects: Collocation; Trajectory; Discretization; Earth-Moon; Astrodynamics; Solar sail; Solar-sail; Solar sailing; Mesh control; Error estimation; Soyuz; Transfer trajectory; vertical Lyapunov; orbit; Gauss-Lobatto; Gauss-Newton; Aitken; South Pole; South pole
• Online Access: http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:066162cd-c531-4400-8e0f-3b3d6dedb5b9

This thesis presents the design of solar-sail transfer trajectories to a constellation of two spacecraft in displaced vertical Lyapunov orbits at the L2 point of the Earth-Moon system. The constellation provides continuous coverage of the Aitken basin and the lunar South Pole. Initial guesses for th...