Design of optimal transfers between North and South Pole-sitter orbits

• Main Authors: Heiligers, J., Ceriotti, M., McInnes, C.R., Biggs, J.D.
• Format: Conference Object
• Language: English
• Published: 2012
• Subjects: Antarctic; Arctic; Sitter; South Pole; Antarc*; South pole
• Online Access: http://eprints.gla.ac.uk/89730/; http://eprints.gla.ac.uk/89730/1/89730.pdf; http://www.univelt.com/Advances.html

Recent studies have shown the feasibility of an Earth pole-sitter mission, where a spacecraft follows the Earth’s polar axis to have a continuous, hemispherical view of one of the Earth’s Poles. However, due to the tilt of the polar axis, the North and South Poles are alternately situated in darknes...