The intrinsic equations of optimal two-impulse transfer
Abstract
The problem of determining an optimal two-impulse transfer between given positions is reduced to the solution of an equation of the sixth degree with six real roots. Three of the roots correspond to actual solutions of the problem.
- Publication:
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Astronautica Acta
- Pub Date:
- August 1974
- Bibcode:
- 1974AsAc...18..233G
- Keywords:
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- Orbital Mechanics;
- Trajectory Optimization;
- Transfer Orbits;
- Equations Of Motion;
- Gravitational Effects;
- Radial Velocity;
- Trigonometric Functions;
- Astrodynamics