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Full Length Article | Open Access

Two-maneuver indirect contingency return from a low lunar orbit

Yunfei LIa,b, Xiaosheng XINc, Xiyun HOUa,b( )
School of Astronomy and Space Science, Nanjing University, Nanjing 210023, China
Key Laboratory of Modern Astronomy and Astrophysics (Nanjing University), Ministry of Education, Nanjing 210023, China
Beijing Institute of Tracking and Telecommunication Technology, Beijing 100094, China

Peer review under responsibility of Editorial Committee of CJA.

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Abstract

The problem of contingency return from the low lunar orbit is studied. A novel two-maneuver indirect return strategy is proposed. By effectively using the Earth’s gravity to change the orbital plane of the transfer orbit, the second maneuver in the well-known three-maneuver return strategy can be removed, so the total delta-v is reduced. Compared with the single-maneuver direct return, our strategy has the advantage in that the re-entry epoch for the minimum delta-v cost can be advanced in time, with a minimum delta-v value similar to that of the direct return. The most obvious difference between our strategy and the traditional single- or multiple- maneuver strategies is that the complete transfer orbit is a patch between a two-body conic orbit and a three-body orbit instead of two conic orbits. Our strategy can serve as a useful option for contingency return from a low lunar orbit, especially when the delta-v constraint is stringent for a direct return and the contingency epoch is far away from the return window.

Keywords

Gravity assistMoonLow lunar orbitContingency returnThird-body maneuver

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Chinese Journal of Aeronautics
Volume 36 Issue 8,
August 2023
Pages 115-127
DOI: 10.1016/j.cja.2023.04.018
Cite this article:
LI Y, XIN X, HOU X. Two-maneuver indirect contingency return from a low lunar orbit. Chinese Journal of Aeronautics, 2023, 36(8): 115-127. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cja.2023.04.018

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Received: 27 June 2022
Revised: 13 September 2022
Accepted: 15 January 2023
Published: 21 April 2023
© 2023 Chinese Society of Aeronautics and Astronautics.

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