Reflective-Sail Weak Stability Boundary Structure with the Locally Optimal Control Law

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Original abstract

Escaping from the Earth is the first step of interplanetary transfers. Traditional ballistic escape trajectories in the Sun-Earth circular restricted three-body problem face limitations in relatively long time of flight and low hyperbolic excess velocity. To augment the construction of escape trajectories from the Earth, this Note proposes the concept of reflective-sail weak stability boundary structures and accordingly constructs and analyzes escape trajectories from the Earth in the context of the Sun-Earth planar circular restricted three-body problem with a reflective sail. Using an ideal reflective sail, the locally optimal control law to maximize the time derivative of the Keplerian energy with respect to the Earth is adopted. Levi-Civita regularization about the Earth is derived to address the singularity caused by the Earth. The configurations of reflective-sail weak stability boundary structures are calculated to provide initial states for constructing escape trajectories and information about regions where escape is facilitated. Then, the escape trajectories using a reflective sail are constructed based on the proposed weak stability boundary structures. The escape performance, including time of flight and estimated hyperbolic excess velocity, is analyzed. Comparison with ballistic escape trajectories in the Sun-Earth PCR3BP is also performed, indicating improved escape performance characterized by shorter time of flight and higher hyperbolic excess velocity.

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