Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
Jan 2011
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Chinese Astronomy and Astrophysics, Volume 35, Issue 1, p. 71-81.
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
Scientific paper
The mission designed to explore asteroids has nowadays become a hot spot of deep space exploration, and the accessibility of the explored objects is the most important problem to make clear. The number of asteroids is large, and it needs an enormous quantity of calculations to evaluate the accessibility for all asteroids. In this paper, based on the direct transfer strategy, we have calculated the accessibility for the different regions of the solar system and compared it with the distribution of asteroids. It is found that most main-belt asteroids are accessible by the direct transfer orbit with the launch energy of C3 = 50 km2/s2, and that with an additional small velocity correction, the designed trajectory is able to realize the multi-target flyby mission. Such a kind of multi-target flyby can reach the same effect of the orbit manoeuvre in the ΔV-EGA trajectory scheme[1,2]. Being assisted by the earth's gravity, the accompanying flight with asteroids or the exploration of more distant asteroids can be realized with a lower energy. In the end, as an example, a trajectory scheme is given, in which the probe flies by multiple main-belt asteroids at first, then with the assistance of the earth's gravity, it makes the accompanying flight to a more distant asteroid.
Li Guang-Yu
Luo Yong-Jie
Xia Yan
Zhao Hai-Bin
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