hybrid low-thrust propulsion
Displaced geostationary orbits using hybrid low-thrust propulsion
... Electric Propulsion (SEP) has also been considered as a means to maintain displaced NKOs ...a low AD 2 ...of hybrid low-thrust propulsion, a complementing combination of a solar ...
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Displaced geostationary orbits using hybrid low-thrust propulsion
... using hybrid low-thrust propulsion, a complementary combination of Solar Electric Propulsion (SEP) and solar sailing, are investigated to increase the capacity of the geostationary ring ...
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Static highly elliptical orbits using hybrid low-thrust propulsion
... a hybrid low-thrust propulsion ...maximum thrust of the SEP system, thus allowing the initial mass of the spacecraft to ...a hybrid SEP / solar sail system over a pure SEP ...
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Static highly elliptical orbits using hybrid low-thrust propulsion
... electric propulsion systems have been considered to maintain the novel, 12-hr, highly elliptical orbit, inclined at 90deg to the equator, termed a Taranis ...This hybrid propulsion lowers the demand ...
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Static highly elliptical orbits using hybrid low-thrust propulsion
... maximum thrust of the solar electric propulsion thruster constrains the ...electric propulsion system is ...maximum thrust, the increase in mission lifetime is greater than that achieved using ...
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Artificial three-body equilibria for hybrid low-thrust propulsion
... a hybrid of solar sail and solar electric ...a hybrid sail for artificial equilibrium points that are technologically difficult with either of these propulsion systems ...The hybrid sail has ...
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Analytical, circle-to-circle low-thrust transfer trajectories with plane change
... a hybrid constant acceleration (of 0.1 mm s -2 ) electric propulsion and solar sail (characteristic accelerations of ...sail thrust is directed within the orbit plane, ...electric propulsion ...
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Hybrid low-thrust transfers to eight-shaped orbits for polar observation
... optimal low-thrust transfers from low Earth orbit (LEO) to these eight-shaped ...on low-thrust transfers to eight-shaped orbits by Senent and co-authors: 11 like the work by Senent, ...
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A novel approach to hybrid propulsion transfers
... a hybrid propulsion transfer termed a Hohmann Spiral, incorporating low and high-thrust technologies, analogous to the high-thrust bi-elliptic ...high thrust Hohmann and a ...
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Sun-synchronous highly elliptical orbits using low-thrust propulsion
... propulsion (SEP) and hybrid solar-sail/SEP systems respectively. Previous work also pays particular attention to a 12 h Taranis orbit with apogee altitude similar to that of a Molniya orbit and an ...
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Low-thrust enabled highly non-Keplerian orbits in support of future Mars exploration
... with hybrid propulsion in turn translate into a partial benefit of using hybrid propulsion for a communications relay at ...the hybrid spacecraft can be displaced further from the pole ...
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Survey of highly non-Keplerian orbits with low-thrust propulsion
... maximum thrust 300mN, the authors illustrated how such a relay spacecraft could be stationed up to approximately ...a thrust of about 200mN for the same relay ...the thrust requirements are ...
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Displaced periodic orbits with low-thrust propulsion
... craft propulsion. These propulsion systems can enable exciting new space-science mission concepts such as solar system exploration and deep space ...a hybrid of solar sail and a solar electric ...
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Design of optimal Earth pole-sitter transfers using low-thrust propulsion
... electric propulsion (SEP) it was shown that a five year pole-sitter mission with a 100 kg payload ...the propulsion module) is feasible and requires an initial mass of 465 ...this hybrid ...
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Designing displaced lunar orbits using low-thrust propulsion
... concerned with the motion of a hybrid sail that has negligible mass. It is always assumed that the two more massive bodies are moving in circular orbits with constant angular velocity ω about their common center ...
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Extension of earth orbits using low-thrust propulsion
... The low-altitude of the conventional Sun- synchronous Polar orbiting spacecraft means in order to achieve real time continuous observation of the Earth, a constellation of between thirty and one hundred spacecraft ...
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The Orbital Dynamics of Advanced Planetary Observation Systems
... Electromagnetic propulsion systems accelerate propellant through a combination of electric and magnetic fields to produce thrust [69]. These systems can be categorised as either Magnetoplasmadynamic (MPD) ...
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Extension of low-thrust propulsion to the autonomous coplanar circular restricted four body problem with application to future Trojan Asteroid missions
... As a result completely novel, bounded orbits are proved to exist, that in the Sun-Jupiter-Trojan Asteroid-Spacecraft system can be maintained with a constant thrust lower than 10µN oriented in a fixed direction. ...
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Non-Keplerian orbits using low thrust, high ISP propulsion systems
... sail propulsion systems are considered, although in the latter case only about the Sun in the two-body case or about a body orbiting the Sun in the three-body ...
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Design of optimal Earth pole-sitter transfers using low thrust propulsion
... using low-thrust ...employing low-thrust propulsion. A launch from low Earth orbit (LEO) by a Soyuz Fregat upper stage is assumed after which a solar-electric-propulsion ...
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