Trajectory Design From GTO To Lunar Equatorial Orbit For The Dark Ages Radio Explorer (DARE) Spacecraft
Abstract
The trajectory design for the Dark Ages Radio Explorer (DARE) mission con-cept involves launching the DARE spacecraft into a geosynchronous transfer orbit (GTO) as a secondary payload. From GTO, the spacecraft then transfers to a lunar orbit that is stable (i.e., no station-keeping maneuvers are required with minimum perilune altitude always above 40 km) and allows for more than 1,000 cumulative hours for science measurements in the radio-quiet region located on the lunar farside.
- Publication:
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arXiv e-prints
- Pub Date:
- April 2015
- DOI:
- 10.48550/arXiv.1504.00410
- arXiv:
- arXiv:1504.00410
- Bibcode:
- 2015arXiv150400410G
- Keywords:
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- Astrophysics - Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics
- E-Print:
- 15 pages, 17 Figures, To appear in the Proceedings of AAS/AIAA Space Flight Mechanics Meeting, Williamsburg, VA, Jan 11-15, 2015