TY - GEN
T1 - PLANET-B's lunar gravity assist trajectory to Mars
AU - Kawaguchi, Jun'ichiro
AU - Kimura, Masafumi
AU - Yamakawa, Hiroshi
AU - Uesugi, Tono
AU - Matsuo, Hiroki
AU - Farquhar, Robert W.
PY - 1993
Y1 - 1993
N2 - PLANET-B is a Mars orbiter mission currently under fabrication in ISAS (Institute of Space and Astronautical Science, Japan), whose launch is scheduled in either 1996 or 1998 as a backup. ISAS is planning to make it fly boosted by means of multiple lunar swingbys and its design and results are presented here. This paper presents an universal design chart for the interplanetary spacecraft that may utilize such lunar gravity assist, based on which swingby point is determined. As a verify practical illustration of this scheme, this provides with rigorous trajectory example that is currently a baseline for PLANET-B spacecraft.
AB - PLANET-B is a Mars orbiter mission currently under fabrication in ISAS (Institute of Space and Astronautical Science, Japan), whose launch is scheduled in either 1996 or 1998 as a backup. ISAS is planning to make it fly boosted by means of multiple lunar swingbys and its design and results are presented here. This paper presents an universal design chart for the interplanetary spacecraft that may utilize such lunar gravity assist, based on which swingby point is determined. As a verify practical illustration of this scheme, this provides with rigorous trajectory example that is currently a baseline for PLANET-B spacecraft.
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M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:0027767025
SN - 0877033803
T3 - Advances in the Astronautical Sciences
SP - 1651
EP - 1664
BT - Advances in the Astronautical Sciences
PB - Publ by Univelt Inc
T2 - Proceedings of the AAS/AIAA Astrodynamics Conference. Part 2 (of 3)
Y2 - 16 August 1993 through 19 August 1993
ER -