A Shape-Based Method for Continuous Low-Thrust Trajectory Design between Circular Coplanar Orbits

Table 4

Simulation results using different initial guesses in the LEO-GEO case.

	Before optimization		After optimization		Optimization time
	OFS method	0.5880 DU/TU	113.4903 TU	0.5803 DU/TU		113.5714 TU	44.846 s
TFS method	0.5900 DU/TU	111.1915 TU	0.5812 DU/TU	111.4286 TU	37.880 s
Hohmann	0.4974 DU/TU