Trajectories for missions to asteroids using invariant manifolds

• Grant number: 18/00059-9
• Support Opportunities: Regular Research Grants
• Start date: April 01, 2018
• End date: March 31, 2019
• Field of knowledge: Engineering - Aerospace Engineering - Flight Dynamics
• Principal Investigator: Priscilla Andressa de Sousa Silva
• Grantee: Priscilla Andressa de Sousa Silva
• Host Institution: Universidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP). Campus Experimental São João da Boa Vista. São João da Boa Vista , SP, Brazil

Abstract

This project aims the investigation of trajectories for missions to asteroids in the context of many-body dynamics. Initially, the role of the invariant manifolds of the Restricted Three-Body Problem will be explored by means of both analytical and numerical approach, using Dynamical Systems tools, in order to determine preliminary profiles for missions to asteroids. Specifically, our goal is to investigate the applicability of invariant structures associated to regions of effective stability around the triangular equilibria, for different missions to asteroids, such as, orbiting, capture, and transport missions. (AU)

Scientific publications

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(References retrieved automatically from Web of Science and SciELO through information on FAPESP grants and their corresponding numbers as mentioned in the publications by the authors)

L. B. T. SANTOS; L. O. MARCHI; P. A. SOUSA-SILVA; D. M. SANCHEZ; S. ALJBAAE; A. F. B. A. PRADO. Dynamics around an asteroid modeled as a mass tripole. REVISTA MEXICANA DE ASTRONOMIA Y ASTROFISICA, v. 56, n. 2, p. 269-286, 2021-03-24. (18/00059-9, 16/24561-0, 16/18418-0)

SANTOS, L. B. T.; SOUSA-SILVA, P. A.; SANCHEZ, D. M.; PRADO, A. F. B. A.; SINGLA, P; WEISMAN, RM; MARCHAND, BG; JONES, BA. SEARCHING FOR ORBITS AROUND EQUILIBRIUM POINTS IN A BINARY ASTEROID SYSTEM MODELED AS A MASS DIPOLE. ASTRODYNAMICS 2018, PTS I-IV, v. 167, p. 18-pg., 2019-01-01. (18/00059-9, 13/07174-4, 18/06966-8, 14/22295-5, 16/18418-0, 16/14665-2, 16/24561-0)

BREJAO, LEANDRO F.; SANTOS, LEONARDO B. T.; SANCHEZ, DIOGO M.; PRADO, ANTONIO F. B. A.; SINGLA, P; WEISMAN, RM; MARCHAND, BG; JONES, BA. STUDYING THE MOTION OF A SPACECRAFT ORBITING AN ASTEROID MODELED AS AN ASYMMETRIC MASS DIPOLE. ASTRODYNAMICS 2018, PTS I-IV, v. 167, p. 20-pg., 2019-01-01. (18/00059-9, 13/07174-4, 14/22295-5, 16/18418-0, 16/14665-2, 16/24561-0)

SOUSA-SILVA, PRISCILLA; TERRA, MAISA O.; CERIOTTI, MATTEO. Fast Earth-Moon transfers with ballistic capture. ASTROPHYSICS AND SPACE SCIENCE, v. 363, n. 10, OCT 2018. (13/07174-4, 12/21023-6, 18/00059-9, 15/16575-8, 14/14448-6)