@inproceedings{b71033920e8a420dbacee14edcac3118,
title = "Earth-mars transfers through moon distant retrograde orbit",
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.",
author = "Davide Conte and {Di Carlo}, Marilena and Koki Ho and Spencer, {David B.} and Massimiliano Vasile",
year = "2016",
language = "English (US)",
isbn = "9780877036296",
series = "Advances in the Astronautical Sciences",
publisher = "Univelt Inc.",
pages = "2447--2462",
editor = "Turner, {James D.} and Wawrzyniak, {Geoff G.} and Cerven, {William Todd} and Manoranjan Majji",
booktitle = "Astrodynamics 2015",
address = "United States",
note = "AAS/AIAA Astrodynamics Specialist Conference, ASC 2015 ; Conference date: 09-08-2015 Through 13-08-2015",
}