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The Astrodynamics Primer on Cislunar and Translunar Space
Aaron J. Rosengren, Anjali Rawat, Bhanu Kumar +1
The Earth-Moon environment is multiscale and strongly nonuniform, yet it is often discussed as a single cislunar regime. In reality, circumterrestrial space is partitioned by chang…
Analytical estimates for heliocentric escape of satellite ejecta
Jose Daniel Castro-Cisneros, Renu Malhotra, Aaron J. Rosengren
We present a general analytic framework to assess whether impact ejecta launched from the surface of a satellite can escape the gravitational influence of the planet--satellite sys…
A dynamical coherency gate for state recovery: Statistical requiem for the long arc of cislunar orbital mis-prediction
Binyamin Stivi, Vishnuu Mallik, Lamberto Dell'Elce +1
We present a statistically grounded methodology for recovering physically consistent initial conditions from historical two-line element sets (TLEs), enabling accurate long-arc tra…
Lunar impact ejecta flux on the Earth
Jose Daniel Castro-Cisneros, Renu Malhotra, Aaron J. Rosengren
The transfer of material between planetary bodies due to impact events is important for understanding planetary evolution, meteoroid impact fluxes, the formation of near-Earth obje…
The Sensitivity to initial conditions of the Co-orbital outcomes of Lunar Ejecta
Jose Daniel Castro-Cisneros, Renu Malhotra, Aaron J. Rosengren
Lunar ejecta, produced by meteoroidal impacts, have been proposed for the origin of the near-Earth asteroid (469219) Kamo'oalewa, supported by its unusually Earth-like orbit and L-…
Lunar ejecta origin of near-Earth asteroid Kamo`oalewa is compatible with rare orbital pathways
Jose Daniel Castro-Cisneros, Renu Malhotra, Aaron J. Rosengren
Near-Earth asteroid, Kamo'oalewa (469219), is one of a small number of known quasi-satellites of Earth; it transitions between quasi-satellite and horseshoe orbital states on cente…
The smallest planetary drivers of white dwarf pollution
Dimitri Veras, Aaron J. Rosengren
Many potential mechanisms for delivering planetary debris to within a few Roche radii of white dwarfs rely on gravitational scattering events that feature perturbers which are gian…
Space Occupancy in Low-Earth Orbit
Claudio Bombardelli, Gabriele Falco, Davide Amato +1
With the upcoming launch of large constellations of satellites in the low-Earth orbit (LEO) region it will become important to organize the physical space occupied by the different…
Lunar close encounters compete with the circumterrestrial Lidov-Kozai effect
Davide Amato, Renu Malhotra, Vladislav Sidorenko +1
Luna 3 (or Lunik 3 in Russian sources) was the first spacecraft to perform a flyby of the Moon. Launched in October 1959 on a translunar trajectory with large semi-major axis and e…
Assessing and Minimizing Collisions in Satellite Mega-Constellations
Nathan Reiland, Aaron J. Rosengren, Renu Malhotra +1
We aim to provide satellite operators and researchers with an efficient means for evaluating and mitigating collision risk during the design process of mega-constellations. We firs…
Non-singular recursion formulas for third-body perturbations in mean vectorial elements
M. Lara, A. J. Rosengren, E. Fantino
The description of the long-term dynamics of highly elliptic orbits under third-body perturbations may require an expansion of the disturbing function in series of the semi-major a…
Dynamical cartography of Earth satellite orbits
Aaron J. Rosengren, Despoina K. Skoulidou, Kleomenis Tsiganis +1
We have carried out a numerical investigation of the coupled gravitational and non-gravitational perturbations acting on Earth satellite orbits in an extensive grid, covering the w…
Medium Earth Orbit dynamical survey and its use in passive debris removal
Despoina K. Skoulidou, Aaron J. Rosengren, Kleomenis Tsiganis +1
The Medium Earth Orbit (MEO) region hosts satellites for navigation, communication, and geodetic/space environmental science, among which are the Global Navigation Satellites Syste…
Dynamical Lifetime Survey of Geostationary Transfer Orbits
Despoina K. Skoulidou, Aaron J. Rosengren, Kleomenis Tsiganis +1
In this paper, we study the long-term dynamical evolution of highly-elliptical orbits (HEOs) in the medium-Earth orbit (MEO) region around the Earth. The real population consists p…
Non-averaged regularized formulations as an alternative to semi-analytical orbit propagation methods
Davide Amato, Claudio Bombardelli, Giulio Baù +2
This paper is concerned with the comparison of semi-analytical and non-averaged propagation methods for Earth satellite orbits. We analyse the total integration error for semi-anal…
Drift and its mediation in terrestrial orbits
Jerome Daquin, Ioannis Gkolias, Aaron J. Rosengren
The slow deformation of terrestrial orbits in the medium range, subject to lunisolar resonances, is well approximated by a family of Hamiltonian flow with degree-of-freedom.…
From order to chaos in Earth satellite orbits
Ioannis Gkolias, Jerome Daquin, Fabien Gachet +1
We consider Earth satellite orbits in the range of semi-major axes where the perturbing effects of Earth's oblateness and lunisolar gravity are of comparable order. This range cove…
Diffusive chaos in navigation satellites orbits
J. Daquin, A. J. Rosengren, K. Tsiganis
The navigation satellite constellations in medium-Earth orbit exist in a background of third-body secular resonances stemming from the perturbing gravitational effects of the Moon…
Galileo disposal strategy: stability, chaos and predictability
Aaron J. Rosengren, Jerome Daquin, Elisa Maria Alessi +3
Recent studies have shown that the medium-Earth orbit (MEO) region of the Global Navigation Satellite Systems is permeated by a devious network of lunisolar secular resonances, whi…
Analytical development of the lunisolar disturbing function and the critical inclination secular resonance
Alessandra Celletti, Cătălin Galeş, Giuseppe Pucacco +1
We provide a detailed derivation of the analytical expansion of the lunar and solar disturbing functions. Although there exist several papers on this topic, many derivations contai…
The dynamical structure of the MEO region: long-term stability, chaos, and transport
Jerome Daquin, Aaron J. Rosengren, Florent Deleflie +3
It has long been suspected that the Global Navigation Satellite Systems exist in a background of complex resonances and chaotic motion; yet, the precise dynamical character of thes…
Chaos in navigation satellite orbits caused by the perturbed motion of the Moon
Aaron J. Rosengren, Elisa Maria Alessi, Alessandro Rossi +1
Numerical simulations carried out over the past decade suggest that the orbits of the Global Navigation Satellite Systems are unstable, resulting in an apparent chaotic growth of t…