Studying the Close-Approach Maneuver Combined with Low Thrust

• Grant number: 19/15180-0
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships abroad - Research Internship - Post-doctor
• Start date: September 01, 2019
• End date: August 31, 2020
• Field of knowledge: Engineering - Aerospace Engineering - Flight Dynamics
• Principal Investigator: Rodolpho Vilhena de Moraes
• Grantee: Alessandra Ferraz da Silva Ferreira
• Supervisor: Antonio Elipe Sanchez
• Host Institution: Faculdade de Engenharia (FEG). Universidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP). Campus de Guaratinguetá. Guaratinguetá , SP, Brazil
• Institution abroad: Universidad de Zaragoza, Spain
• Associated to the scholarship: 16/23542-1 - Swing-By maneuvers with use of Impulses and Cables in Three Dimensions, BP.PD

Abstract

The study of orbital maneuvers with minimum fuel consumption in space missions are of great interest in Celestial Mechanics. Therefore, the objective of this work is to study a combination of gravity-assisted maneuver combined with the application of continuous low-thrust propulsion to a spacecraft. In the pure gravity maneuver the spacecraft passes close to the celestial body and uses the gravity of this body to change its trajectory. The focus of the present research is to verify the effects of applying a low thrust in different segments of the orbital transfer: before, during and after the close encounter. Several situations will be made combining these three possibilities. The motion of the spacecraft is considered in the three-dimensional space and the system of primaries will be assumed to be in elliptical orbits.

Scientific publications

(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)

FERREIRA, ALESSANDRA F. S.; MORAES, RODOLPHO V.; PRADO, ANTONIO F. B. A.; WINTER, OTHON C.. A mathematical study of the tethered slingshot maneuver using the elliptic restricted problem. NONLINEAR DYNAMICS, v. 102, n. 3, p. 1585-1609, NOV 2020. (16/23542-1, 19/15180-0, 16/24561-0)

FERREIRA, ALESSANDRA F. S.; ELIPE, ANTONIO; DE MORAES, RODOLPHO, V; PRADO, ANTONIO F. B. A.; WINTER, OTHON C.; GOMES, VIVIAN M.. Low Thrust Propelled Close Approach Maneuvers. SYMMETRY-BASEL, v. 14, n. 9, p. 23-pg., 2022-09-01. (16/24561-0, 19/15180-0, 16/23542-1)

ELIPE, ANTONIO; ABAD, ALBERTO; ARRIBAS, MERCEDES; FERREIRA, ALESSANDRA F. S.; DE MORAES, V, RODOLPHO. Symmetric Periodic Orbits in the Dipole-segment Problem for Two Equal Masses. ASTRONOMICAL JOURNAL, v. 161, n. 6, JUN 2021. (19/15180-0, 16/23542-1)