2 papers
astro-ph.EP2024
Interstellar Object Accessibility and Mission Design
Benjamin P. S. Donitz, Declan Mages, Hiroyasu Tsukamoto +6
Interstellar objects (ISOs) represent a compelling and under-explored category of celestial bodies, providing physical laboratories to understand the formation of our solar system…
math.OC2024
Automated Tour Design in the Saturnian System
Yuji Takubo, Damon Landau, Brian Anderson
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…