Automated Tour Design in the Saturnian System
arXiv:2210.14996 · doi:10.1007/s10569-023-10179-8
Abstract
Future missions to Enceladus would benefit from multi-moon tours that leverage V-infinity on resonant orbits to progressively transfer between moons. Such "resonance family hopping" trajectories present a vast search space for global optimization due to the different combinations of available resonances and flyby speeds. The proposed multi-objective tour design algorithm optimizes entire moon tours from Titan to Enceladus via grid-based dynamic programming, in which the computation time is significantly reduced by utilizing a database of V-infinity-leveraging transfers. The result unveils a complete trade space of the moon tour design to Enceladus in a tractable computation time and global optimality.
arXiv commentThis article was presented at the 33rd AAS/AIAA Space Flight Mechanics Meeting, Austin, TX 2023 (paper ID:23-313). The results in this article are obsolete, and readers are encouraged to peruse the alternate version of the article published in Celestial Mechanics and Dynamical Astronomy (https://doi.org/10.1007/s10569-023-10179-8). 19 pages, 11 figures, 8 tables