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Qualitative study of ballistic capture at Mars via Lagrangian descriptors
Alessio Quinci, Gianmario Merisio, Francesco Topputo
Lagrangian descriptors reveal the dynamical skeleton governing transport mechanisms of a generic flow. In doing so, they unveil geometrical structures in the phase space that separ…
Stable sets mapping with Taylor differential algebra with application to ballistic capture orbits around Mars
Thomas Caleb, Gianmario Merisio, Pierluigi Di Lizia +1
Ballistic capture orbits offer safer Mars injection at longer transfer time. However, the search for such an extremely rare event is a computationally intensive process. Indeed, it…
Applied Trajectory Design for close-proximity operations of Asteroid CubeSat Mission
Claudio Bottiglieri, Felice Piccolo, Carmine Giordano +1
In this paper, a practical approach to the trajectory design for asteroid exploration missions with CubeSats is presented. When applied trajectories are sought, operative concerns…
Geometry of Weak Stability Boundaries
Edward Belbruno, Marian Gidea, Francesco Topputo
The notion of a weak stability boundary has been successfully used to design low energy trajectories from the Earth to the Moon. The structure of this boundary has been investigate…