Trajectory Design of Martian Moons Exploration Mission
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- Naoya Ozaki Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, Institute of Space and Astronautical Science
- Hiroka Inoue Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency
- Naoko Ogawa Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency
- Hitoshi Ikeda Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency
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Nicola Baresi
University of Surrey
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Yasuhiro Kawakatsu
Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, Institute of Space and Astronautical Science
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DOI:
https://doi.org/10.51094/jxiv.770Keywords:
MMX, Phobos, Trajectory Design, Sample Return, Robust Orbit InsertionAbstract
The Martian Moons eXploration (MMX) mission is JAXA's M-class mission to be launched in the 2020s. MMX will explore the Martian moons, retrieve a sample from Phobos, and bring it back to the Earth. This paper presents the overall trajectory design of MMX in the pre-project phase. In the nominal roundtrip trajectory design, we introduce an extended porkchop plot for each inbound/outbound trajectory and search globally optimal solutions satisfying mission constraints such as the Earth entry condition. We also propose two new algorithms; a new robust orbit insertion algorithm using a general tangential maneuver shows the global characteristic of the robust orbits; a new flyby algorithm uses a non-resonant transfer between two resonant flyby orbits and enables the almost whole-surface observation of Deimos.
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Naoya Ozaki
Hiroka Inoue
Naoko Ogawa
Hitoshi Ikeda
Nicola Baresi
Yasuhiro Kawakatsu
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