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I saw this article today http://www.physorg.com/news/2011-06-artemis-spacecraft-lunar-orbit.html
This looks like an interesting challenge. From some earth orbit (Geosync maybe?) transfer to a lissajous or Lyapunov orbit around Eath-Moon L1.
Then do a minimum DV transfer to Earth-Moon L2 orbit. From there tranfer to a stable Lunar orbit.
I have no idea how to actually accomplish this, but I did find a couple of papers on the subject, and although I get the general idea, reducing all that math to a direction and magnitude of dv to enter the proper manifold is a tad beyond me right now.
http://ccar.colorado.edu/geryon/papers/Misc/Chaining3BodyOrbits.pdf
http://tdx.cat/bitstream/handle/10803/5927/01Ecv01de01.pdf?sequence=1
If anyone figures out a practical way to actually do this, please post a tutorial!
This looks like an interesting challenge. From some earth orbit (Geosync maybe?) transfer to a lissajous or Lyapunov orbit around Eath-Moon L1.
Then do a minimum DV transfer to Earth-Moon L2 orbit. From there tranfer to a stable Lunar orbit.
I have no idea how to actually accomplish this, but I did find a couple of papers on the subject, and although I get the general idea, reducing all that math to a direction and magnitude of dv to enter the proper manifold is a tad beyond me right now.
http://ccar.colorado.edu/geryon/papers/Misc/Chaining3BodyOrbits.pdf
http://tdx.cat/bitstream/handle/10803/5927/01Ecv01de01.pdf?sequence=1
If anyone figures out a practical way to actually do this, please post a tutorial!
