Rapid Trajectory Design for Low-Thrust Many-Revolution Rendezvous Using Analytical Derivations

What is it about?

The applications of the electric propulsion (EP) technology in the Earth-center space rendezvous missions have drawn great attention. The relevant transfer process is a typical low-thrust many-revolution rendezvous trajectory. It is challenging for the rapid generation of the many-revolution rendezvous trajectories. We develop a rapid trajectory generation method based on the analytical derivations for the low-thrust many-revolution rendezvous mission between two satellites on circular or near-circular orbits.

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