2025/01/15 by Naoya Ozaki, Yuki AKIYAMA, Ozaki, Naoya +9
Engineering · Physics and Astronomy · #Earth and Planetary Astrophysics (astro-ph.EP) #FOS: Electrical engineering #FOS: Mathematics #FOS: Physical sciences #Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM) #Magnetic confinement fusion research #Nuclear physics research studies #Optimization and Control (math.OC) #Space Satellite Systems and Control #Systems and Control (eess.SY) #electronic engineering #information engineering
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.2501.17867
openalex publication_date 2025/01/15 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
DESTINY+ is a planned JAXA medium-class Epsilon mission from Earth to deep space using a low-thrust, many-revolution orbit. Such a trajectory design is a challenging problem not only for trajectory design but also for flight operations, and in particular, it is essential to evaluate the impact of operational uncertainties to ensure mission success. In this study, we design the low-thrust trajectory from Earth orbit to a lunar transfer orbit by differential dynamic programming using the Sundman transformation. The results of Monte Carlo simulations with operational uncertainties confirm that the spacecraft can be successfully guided to the lunar transfer orbit by using the feedback control law of differential dynamic programming in the angular domain.