Ballistic Lunar Capture Transfers Using The Fuzzy Boundary And Solar Perturbations: A Survey
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E. Belbruno. (1994), JBIS, 47, pp.73-80
Refcode: 1994.47.73
Abstract:
The Japanese spacecraft Hiten arrived at the Moon on October 2, 1991 on a new type of Earth-Moon transfer. This transfer was originally developed by Belbruno as a low energy alternative to the Hohmann transfer [1,2]. The fundamental difference between this transfer and Hohmann’s is in the elimination of the hyperbolic excess velocity V(inf) at lunar periapsis upon arrival. The new transfer utilises ballistic capture as that the spacecraft at lunar arrival has an elliptic state with respect to the Moon. This is yields an improvement in the delta-V required to insert a payload into circular lunar orbit by approximately 20% over that or Hohmann from Earth injection [3,4,5].
