supported in part by the China Postdoctoral Science Foundation funded project (No. 2012M520753);the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities (No. HIT.NSRIF.2014307);the Open Fund of National Defense Key Discipline Laboratory of Micro-Spacecraft Technology (No. HIT.KLOF.MST.201303)
The two-body orbital transfer problem from an elliptic parking orbit to an excess veloc-ity vector with the tangent impulse is studied. The direction of the impulse is constrained to be aligned with the velocity vecto...