Possibilities of Combining High- and Low-Thrust Engines in Flights to Mars

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Nov 2001

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Cosmic Research, v. 39, Issue 6, p. 574-582 (2001).

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The use of combinations of chemical and electric jet engines in the spacecraft designs results in a multistage vehicle configuration and in related problems of the optimum distribution of masses between the stages, the problems of flight trajectory optimization, and the problems of choosing the design parameters of a spacecraft. The appropriate issues are considered using flights to Mars as an example. The conditions for the optimum matching of high and low thrust trajectory segments are presented. The model of the simultaneous optimization of the geocentric and heliocentric legs of the trajectory is proposed. One- and two-orbit optimum trajectories of flight are investigated and analyzed.

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