Double lunar swing-by orbits revisited

The double lunar swing-by orbits are a special kind of orbits in the Earth-Moon system.These orbits repeatedly pass through the vicinity of the Moon and change their shapes due to the Moon’s gravity.In the synodic frame of the circular restricted three-body problem consisting of the Earth and the Moon,these orbits are periodic,with two close approaches to the Moon in every orbit period.In this paper,these orbits are revisited.It is found that these orbits belong to the symmetric horseshoe periodic families which bifurcate from the planar Lyapunov family around the collinear libration point L3.Usually,the double lunar swing-by orbits have k=i+j loops,where i is the number of the inner loops and j is the number of outer loops.The genealogy of these orbits with different i and j is studied in this paper.That is,how these double lunar swing-by orbits are organized in the symmetric horseshoe periodic families is explored.In addition,the 2n lunar swing-by orbits(n≥2)with 2n close approaches to the Moon in one orbit period are also studied.

结合行星借力飞行技术的小推力转移轨道初始设计

针对结合行星借力和小推力技术的行星际转移轨道设计问题,提出一种基于形状逼近策略的初始设计方法。采用改进的逆六次多项式策略计算小推力弧段,通过引入B平面参数和推进器开关点时间系数实现行星借力和推滑混合轨道的拼接,将初始设计问题转化为求解混合整数非线性规划问题。为降低规划模型求解难度,通过参数变换对模型进行简化处理,并采用具有全局大范围搜索能力的改进微分进化算法求解最优设计参数。数值结果表明:相比正弦指数曲线设计方法,本文方法可以有效对交会型转移轨道进行设计,并且可以提供更少燃料消耗的探测机会。