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Optimizing low-thrust and gravity assist maneuvers to design interplanetary trajectories
Massimiliano Vasile, Franco Bernelli-Zazzera
In this paper a direct method based on a transcription by finite elements in time has been used to design optimal interplanetary trajectories, exploiting a combination of gravity a…
Design of Low-Thrust Gravity Assist Trajectories to Europa
Massimiliano Vasile, Stefano Campagnola
This paper presents the design of a mission to Europa using solar electric propulsion as main source of thrust. A direct transcription method based on Finite Elements in Time was u…
On the Preliminary Design of Multiple Gravity-Assist Trajectories
Massimiliano Vasile, Paolo DePascale
In this paper the preliminary design of multiple gravity-assist trajectories is formulated as a global optimization problem. An analysis of the structure of the solution space reve…
Optimal impact strategies for asteroid deflection
Massimiliano Vasile, Camilla Colombo
This paper presents an analysis of optimal impact strategies to deflect potentially dangerous asteroids. To compute the increase in the minimum orbit intersection distance of the a…