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Exoplanetary Tour Design with Solar Sails: TheAntipodes Results in the GTOC13 Problem
Jack Yarndley, Adam Evans, Xingyu Zhou +2
The paper describes the solution developed by team TheAntipodes for the GTOC13 challenge, using a combination of beam search, resonant targeting, and sequential convex programming…
Station-Keeping Approach for Extremely Low Lunar Orbits with Solar Sailing
Jack Yarndley, Gregory Lantoine, Roberto Armellin
Renewed interest in cislunar space has created opportunities for sustained operations in extremely low-lunar orbits (eLLOs), where altitudes below 50~km enable close surface proxim…
Can LLMs Do Rocket Science? Exploring the Limits of Complex Reasoning with GTOC 12
Iñaki del Campo, Pablo Cuervo, Victor Rodriguez-Fernandez +2
Large Language Models (LLMs) have demonstrated remarkable proficiency in code generation and general reasoning, yet their capacity for autonomous multi-stage planning in high-dimen…
Optimization of Transfers linking Ballistic Captures to Earth-Moon Periodic Orbit Families
Lorenzo Anoè, Roberto Armellin, Jack Yarndley +2
The design of transfers to periodic orbits in the Earth-Moon system has regained prominence with NASA's Artemis and CNSA's Chang'e programs. This work addresses the problem of link…
Sequential Convex Programming for Multimode Spacecraft Trajectory Optimization
Jack Yarndley
Spacecraft equipped with multiple propulsion modes or systems can offer enhanced performance and mission flexibility compared with traditional configurations. Despite these benefit…
Using the Translation Theorem for the Automated Stationkeeping of Extremely-Low Lunar Missions
Jack Yarndley, Martin Lara, Harry Holt +1
Extremely-Low Lunar Orbits (eLLOs) (altitudes km) exhibit severe perturbations due to the highly non-spherical lunar gravitational field, presenting unique challenges to…