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  • About
  • The Global ETD Search service is a free service for researchers to find electronic theses and dissertations. This service is provided by the Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations.
    Our metadata is collected from universities around the world. If you manage a university/consortium/country archive and want to be added, details can be found on the NDLTD website.
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Disposal Dynamics from the Vicinity of Near Rectilinear Halo Orbits in the Earth-Moon-Sun System

Kenza K. Boudad (5930555) 17 January 2019 (has links)
<div>After completion of a resupply mission to NASA’s proposed Lunar Orbital Platform - Gateway, safe disposal of the Logistics Module is required. One potential option is disposal to heliocentric space. This investigation includes an exploration of the trajectory escape dynamics from an Earth-Moon L2 Near Rectilinear Halo Orbit (NRHO). The effects of the solar gravitational perturbations are assessed in the Bicircular Restricted 4-Body Problem (BCR4BP), as defined in the Earth-Moon rotating frame and in the Sun-B1 rotating frame, where B1 is the Earth-Moon barycenter. Disposal trajectories candidates are classified in three outcomes: direct escape, in direct escapes and captures.</div><div>Characteristics of each outcome is defined in terms of three parameters: the location of the apoapses within to the Sun-B1 rotating frame, a characteristic Hamiltonian value, and the osculating eccentricity with respect to the Earth-Moon barycenter. Sample trajectories are presented for each outcome. Low-cost disposal options are introduced.</div>
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Incorporation of Lunar Passages into Secondary Payload Transfer Design

Josiah Kenneth Badiali (20360550) 10 January 2025 (has links)
<p dir="ltr">A dramatic increase in the number of missions for inserting both large satellites as well as rideshare spacecraft into cislunar trajectories has been noted as of recently. While bal- listic lunar transfers (BLTs) have proven a reliable means for sending primary missions to their destination orbits, the inflexible jettison conditions imposed upon secondary payloads may significantly limit viable pathways. This investigation is centered about designing a framework to construct lunar transfers for secondary payloads from various commissioning maneuver (CM) states to select periodic orbits near the Moon. These continuous passage- ways are modelled in the Bi-Circular Restricted 4-Body Problem (BCR4BP), while necessary dynamical insights are recovered from the application of dynamical systems theory to both the BCR4BP and the Circular Restricted 3-Body Problem (CR3BP). To understand the impact of a Moon encounter on an outbound lunar transfer, families of BLTs are generated for primary payloads, where select members that have close flybys are isolated an examined. A modular, multi-phase framework is then developed, stemming from the lunar encounter. With this, transfers from a variety of sample CM states to Halo, Butterfly and Lyapunov orbits are presented. The versatility of the design framework is highlighted through a case study for a double-flyby transfer to a select Lyapunov orbit. The presented analysis provides an intuitive strategy for diversifying the otherwise limited pool of viable transfers that send secondary payloads to cislunar orbits.</p>

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