Space Manifold Dynamics Novel Spaceways for Science and Exploration
This book presents an overview of the outcomes resulting from applying the dynamical systems approach to space mission design, a topic referred to as "Space Manifold Dynamics" (SMD). It is a natural follow-on to the international workshop "Novel Spaceways
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Ettore Perozzi · Sylvio Ferraz-Mello Editors
Space Manifold Dynamics Novel Spaceways for Science and Exploration
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Editors Ettore Perozzi Telespazio SpA Via Tiburtina, 965 00156 Roma Italy [email protected]
Sylvio Ferraz-Mello Universidade de São Paulo Instituto de Astronomia, Geofísica e Ciência Atmosféricas (IAG) Rua do Matão 1226 São Paulo-SP Cidade Universitaria Brazil [email protected]; [email protected]
ISBN 978-1-4419-0347-1 e-ISBN 978-1-4419-0348-8 DOI 10.1007/978-1-4419-0348-8 Springer New York Dordrecht Heidelberg London Library of Congress Control Number: 2009940710 © Springer Science+Business Media, LLC 2010 All rights reserved. This work may not be translated or copied in whole or in part without the written permission of the publisher (Springer Science+Business Media, LLC, 233 Spring Street, New York, NY 10013, USA), except for brief excerpts in connection with reviews or scholarly analysis. Use in connection with any form of information storage and retrieval, electronic adaptation, computer software, or by similar or dissimilar methodology now known or hereafter developed is forbidden. The use in this publication of trade names, trademarks, service marks, and similar terms, even if they are not identified as such, is not to be taken as an expression of opinion as to whether or not they are subject to proprietary rights. Printed on acid-free paper Springer is part of Springer Science+Business Media (www.springer.com)
Preface
One cannot predict how knowledge will be applied – only that it often is (Charles Conley, 1968) The advances in the field of dynamical systems led to the development of innovative methods and techniques for investigating stable and chaotic dynamics. The application of these findings to the classical three- and N-body problems provided a novel approach to studying the dynamical evolution of the celestial bodies and finding novel spaceways and orbital configurations for artificial satellites and spacecrafts. The exploitation of quasi-periodic orbits around the collinear Lagrangian points of the Earth-Sun system for solar and astronomy missions is a well known example of this kind. In the last years the renewed interest of the major space agencies in the exploration of Solar System bodies, foreseeing also manned missions to the Moon and Mars, widened the potential benefits of the dynamical systems approach to spaceflight dynamics. Moreover, mission profiles are becoming more and more complex, often requiring a multi-disciplinary approach, where the contribution of operations, the impact of the space environment, and the possibility of in-situ resource exploitation play an increasingly important role. Within this framework, the Space OPS Academy promoted by Telespazio (a Finmeccanica-Thales Company) to foster the development of scientific and professional skills on flight dynamics, ground system management, and Earth observation, organized in October 2007 the workshop “Novel Spaceways for Scientific and Exploration Missions – a dynamical systems approach to a
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