LISA Pathfinder mission extension: A feasibility analysis. Issue 12 (15th June 2019)
- Record Type:
- Journal Article
- Title:
- LISA Pathfinder mission extension: A feasibility analysis. Issue 12 (15th June 2019)
- Main Title:
- LISA Pathfinder mission extension: A feasibility analysis
- Authors:
- Dei Tos, Diogene A.
Rasotto, Mirco
Renk, Florian
Topputo, Francesco - Abstract:
- Abstract: A proposed mission extension for LISA Pathfinder involved redirecting the probe to the Sun–Earth gravitational saddle point. Realistic models for both space and ground segments were used to carry out a number of analyses for trajectory design, orbit determination, and navigation cost. In this work, we present the methods that allow assessing the feasibility of flying general limited-control-authority spacecraft in highly nonlinear dynamics, and in particular of the proposed mission extension in a statistically reliable approach. Solutions for transfers from the Sun–Earth L 1 and L 2 to the saddle point are shown, which feature very low Δ v consumption, from few centimeters per second to 10 m/s. The analysis is then specialized to the case of LISA Pathfinder, for which several solutions are presented. This work gives evidence that LISA Pathfinder might have been able to fly-through the saddle point, provided initial tracking errors within 10 km in each position component and 0.1 m/s in each velocity component. A critical discussion on the opportunistic mission extension is eventually made.
- Is Part Of:
- Advances in space research. Volume 63:Issue 12(2019)
- Journal:
- Advances in space research
- Issue:
- Volume 63:Issue 12(2019)
- Issue Display:
- Volume 63, Issue 12 (2019)
- Year:
- 2019
- Volume:
- 63
- Issue:
- 12
- Issue Sort Value:
- 2019-0063-0012-0000
- Page Start:
- 3863
- Page End:
- 3883
- Publication Date:
- 2019-06-15
- Subjects:
- Low-thrust trajectory -- Optimal trajectory design -- Radiometric navigation -- Lagrange point orbits -- Gravitational saddle point -- LISA Pathfinder
Space sciences -- Periodicals
Astronautics -- Periodicals
Geophysics -- Periodicals
500.505 - Journal URLs:
- http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/journal/02731177 ↗
http://www.elsevier.com/journals ↗ - DOI:
- 10.1016/j.asr.2019.02.035 ↗
- Languages:
- English
- ISSNs:
- 0273-1177
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