Touring Cislunar Periodic Orbit Test Cast for Earth-Moon Search and Rescue
Document Type
Conference Proceeding
Publication Date
1-17-2023
Abstract
This work investigates and analyzes a search and rescue mission comprising a spacecraft in a touring cislunar periodic orbit (TCPO) that will rendezvous with an impaired spacecraft in an near-rectilinear halo orbit (NRHO) about the L2 Lagrange point. This work will simulate a variety of rendezvous' in which both the impaired spacecraft's and the rescuer spacecraft locations are varied. Psuedospectral methods within the circular restricted three-body problem (CR3BP) are utilized to find optimized least time solutions given a max ΔV. The results of this work show the TCPO used in this work to be advantageous in timely rendezvous with an impaired spacecraft in a NRHO.
Source Publication
33rd AAS/AIAA Space Flight Mechanics Meeting
Recommended Citation
Fay, T., Bettinger, R. A., & Wilmer, A. P. (2023). Touring Cislunar Periodic Orbit Test Cast for Earth-Moon Search and Rescue. 33rd AAS/AIAA Space Flight Mechanics Meeting, Session: Cislunar Space Missions and Operations 1., AAS 2023-119.