A NUMERICAL-ANALYTICAL APPROACH BASED ON CANONICAL TRANSFORMATIONS FOR COMPUTING OPTIMAL LOW-THRUST TRANSFERS
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2018
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Romão, João Victor Bateli 
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A numerical-analytical procedure based on infinitesimal canonical transformations is developed for computing optimal time-fixed low-thrust limited power transfers (no rendezvous) between coplanar orbits with small eccentricities in an inverse-square force field. The optimization problem is formulated as a Mayer problem with a set of non-singular orbital elements as state variables. Second order terms in eccentricity are considered in the development of the maximum Hamiltonian describing the optimal trajectories. The two-point boundary value problem of going from an initial orbit to a final orbit is solved by means of a two-stage Newton-Raphson algorithm which uses an infinitesimal canonical transformation. Numerical results are presented for some transfers between circular orbits with moderate radius ratio, including a preliminary analysis of Earth-Mars and Earth-Venus missions.
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Revista Mexicana De Astronomia Y Astrofisica. Mexico City, v. 54, n. 1, p. 111-128, 2018.