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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 18, 2014
Filed:
Mar. 30, 2012
Piyush Grover, Cambridge, MA (US);
Christian Andersson, Stockholm, SE;
Piyush Grover, Cambridge, MA (US);
Christian Andersson, Stockholm, SE;
Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories, Inc., Cambridge, MA (US);
Abstract
A motion of an object is controlled from a geostationary transit orbit (GTO) of an earth to an orbit of a moon. A first trajectory of the motion of the object is determined from an intermediate orbit of an earth to a neighborhood of a stable manifold of a first Lagrange point (L1). A second trajectory of the motion of the object is determined from the GTO to the intermediate orbit. A third trajectory of the motion of the object is determined from the neighborhood to the stable manifold to an L1 orbit, and a fourth trajectory of the motion of the object is determined from the L1 orbit to the orbit of the moon. A trajectory from the GTO to the orbit of the moon is determined based on a combination of the first, the second, the third, and the fourth trajectories.