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

• Main Authors: Heiligers, Jeannette, Ceriotti, Matteo, McInnes, Colin, Biggs, James
• Format: Conference Object
• Language: unknown
• Published: 2012
• Subjects: Mechanical engineering and machinery; Motor vehicles. Aeronautics. Astronautics; Antarctic; Arctic; Sitter; South Pole; Antarc*; South pole
• Online Access: https://strathprints.strath.ac.uk/36807/; https://strathprints.strath.ac.uk/36807/1/Heiligers_J_et_al_Pure_Design_of_optimal_transfers_between_North_and_South_pole_sitter_orbits_Jan_2012.pdf

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...