National Natural Science Foundation of China (10603005)
Low-thrust Earth-orbit transfers with 10^- 5-order thrust-to-weight ratios involve a large number of orbital revolutions which poses a real challenge to trajectory optimization. This article develops a direct method t...
National Natural Science Foundation of China (10603005);Foundation of President of the Academy of Opto-Electro-nics ( AOE-CX-200601)
This article presents a systematic direct approach to carry out effective optimization of a wide range of continuous-thrust Earth-orbit transfers with intermediate-level thrust acceleration,including minimum-time (wit...
National Natural Science Foundation of China (10603005)
The optimization of the Earth-moon trajectory using solar electric propulsion is presented. A feasible method is proposed to optimize the transfer trajectory starting from a low Earth circular orbit (500 km altitude...