Searching less perturbed circular orbits for a spacecraft travelling around Europa
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instance of: scholarly article
title: Searching less perturbed circular orbits for a spacecraft travelling around Europa
zbMATH Open document ID: 1407.70019
DOI: 10.1155/2014/529716
author: Xianqiang Yang
published in: Mathematical Problems in Engineering
publication date: 2019-02-08T00:00:00Z
review text: Summary: Space missions to visit the natural satellite of Jupiter, Europa, constitute an important topic in space activities today, because missions to this moon are under study now. Several considerations have to be made for these missions. The present paper searches for less perturbed circular orbits around Europa. This search is made based on the total effects of the perturbing forces over the time, evaluated by the integral of those forces over the time. This value depends on the dynamical model and on the orbit of the spacecraft. The perturbing forces considered are the third-body perturbation that comes from Jupiter and the \(J_2\), \(J_3\), and \(C_{22}\) terms of the gravitational potential of Europa. Several numerical studies are performed and the results show the locations of the less perturbed orbits. Using those results, it is possible to find near-circular frozen orbits with smaller amplitudes of variations of the orbital elements.
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 70F15
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 70F05
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 70M20
zbMATH DE Number: 7016668
Wikidata QID: Q59068257
MaRDI profile type: Publication
full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1155/2014/529716
OpenAlex ID: W1968565838
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