Application of Periapse Maps for the Design of Trajectories Near the Smaller Primary in Multi-Body Regimes
Figure 2
(a) Artemis trajectory for one spacecraft during transfer from Earth to lunar vicinity viewed in the Sun-Earth rating frame. The trajectory reaches the vicinity of the Sun-Earth libration point after two relatively high energy lunar flybys (a trajectory “backflip”) to eventually reach a low-energy trajectory in the vicinity of the Moon. http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/artemis/news/lunar-orbit.html. (b) Artemis trajectory at arrival in lunar vicinity viewed in Earth-Moon rotating frame. Both spacecraft employ Earth-Moon and libration point orbits to modify the path and eventually insert into lunar orbit later this year. http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/artemis/news/lunar-orbit.htmlFigure.
