Evolutionary Optimization of Multirendezvous Impulsive Trajectories

Figure 2

Geometrical problem. The filled marker in (a) refers to the slow solution that corresponds to the solid-line transfer arc in (b); the empty marker in (a), instead, refers to the fast solution, represented with a dashed line in (b).

(a) Flight time on the transfer ellipse as a function of the semimajor axis

(b) Geometrical construction of the two transfer ellipses