Optimal launch time for a discontinuous low thrust orbit transfer

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Dec 1988

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M.S. Thesis Air Force Inst. of Tech., Wright-Patterson AFB, OH. School of Engineering.

Physics

Circular Orbits, Control Theory, Earth Orbits, Launch Windows, Low Thrust, Orbit Transfer Vehicles, Solar Electric Propulsion, Spacecraft Launching, Spacecraft Trajectories, Earth (Planet), Optimization

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This thesis searches for the optimal launch time of a discontinuous, low thrust transfer between non-coplanar, circular orbits. The spacecraft is assumed to be solar-powered rocket that cannot provide thrust in the earth's shadow. Two time scales are used to calculate a minimum time trajectory. The fast timescale produces a control law which maximizes a change in orbital elements for a single orbit. The slow timescale incorporates the control law so that the final boundary conditions are met in minimum time. Minimum transfer times are determined between winter and summer.

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