Earth-mars transfers through moon distant retrograde orbit

Davide Conte, Marilena Di Carlo, Koki Ho, David B. Spencer, Massimiliano Vasile

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Abstract

This paper focuses on trajectory design which is relevant for missions that would follow NASA's Asteroid Redirect Mission (ARM) to further explore and utilize asteroids and eventually human Mars exploration. Assuming that a refueling gas station is present at a given Lunar Distant Retrograde Orbit (DRO), we analyze ways of departing from the Earth to Mars via that DRO. Thus, the analysis and results presented in this paper add a new cis-lunar departure orbit for Earth-Mars missions. Porkchop plots depicting the required C3 at launch, v at arrival, Time of Flight (TOF), and total ΔV for various DRO departure and Mars arrival dates are created and compared with results obtained for low ΔV LEO to Mars trajectories. The results show that low ΔV DRO to Mars transfers generally have lower ΔV and TOF than LEO to Mars maneuvers.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Title of host publicationAstrodynamics 2015
EditorsJames D. Turner, Geoff G. Wawrzyniak, William Todd Cerven, Manoranjan Majji
PublisherUnivelt Inc.
Pages2447-2462
Number of pages16
ISBN (Print)9780877036296
StatePublished - 2016
EventAAS/AIAA Astrodynamics Specialist Conference, ASC 2015 - Vail, United States
Duration: Aug 9 2015Aug 13 2015

Publication series

NameAdvances in the Astronautical Sciences
Volume156
ISSN (Print)0065-3438

Other

OtherAAS/AIAA Astrodynamics Specialist Conference, ASC 2015
Country/TerritoryUnited States
CityVail
Period8/9/158/13/15

All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes

  • Aerospace Engineering
  • Space and Planetary Science

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