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Earth Orbit Raise Design for the ARTEMIS MissionARTEMIS is a mission to send two spacecraft from Earth orbit to libration orbits around the Moon Lagrange points and then into lunar orbit. Lunar flybys were used early in the mission to send the spacecraft into low-energy lunar transfers which were designed libration orbits for minimal deltaV. ARTEMIS began by raising the Earth orbits of each spacecraft to achieve the planned lunar flybys. Spacecraft conguration and operation constraints made the Earth orbit raise phase of the mission a signicant mission design challenge by itself. This paper describes the process used to and trajectories that achieved mission goals and the resulting series of Earth orbits that culminated in successful lunar flybys.
Document ID
20130000409
Acquisition Source
Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Document Type
Conference Paper
External Source(s)
Authors
Whiffen, Gregory J.
(Jet Propulsion Lab., California Inst. of Tech. Pasadena, CA, United States)
Sweetser, Theodore H.
(Jet Propulsion Lab., California Inst. of Tech. Pasadena, CA, United States)
Date Acquired
August 27, 2013
Publication Date
August 13, 2012
Subject Category
Lunar And Planetary Science And Exploration
Meeting Information
Meeting: AIAA/AAS Astrodynamics Specialist Conference
Location: Minneapolis, MN
Country: United States
Start Date: August 13, 2012
End Date: August 16, 2012
Sponsors: American Astronautical Society, American Inst. of Aeronautics and Astronautics
Distribution Limits
Public
Copyright
Other
Keywords
lunar transfer
Acceleration, Reconnection, Turbulence and Electrodynamics of the Moon's Interac
Earth orbit

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