Optimization of low-thrust transfers in space: Aspects of trajectory and angular-motion control

This book examines the optimal control of the trajectory and angular motion of spacecraft with low-thrust electrojet engines for interorbital and interplanetary transfers. The motion control of spacecraft with a combined propulsion system consisting of high-thrust and low-thrust engines is considered. Attention is also given to optimal low-thrust transfers betwen circular noncoplanar orbits; optimal low-thrust transfers between the coplanar elliptical orbits of earth satellites; and the optimization of multistep interorbital transfers.