| Performer: |
Prof Jerrold Marsden, CDS, Caltech; marsden@cds.caltech.edu |
| Date: |
1999 |
| Customer: |
Jet Propulsion Laboratory |
| Contact: |
Dr. Martin Lo, mwl@trantor.Jpl.Nasa.Gov |
| Results: |
A prior partially supported AFOSR postdoc, Wang-Sang Koon in
collaboration with Jerrold Marsden, Shane Ross and Martin Lo, building
on their recently discovered heteroclinic connection in the three body problem have applied the ideas to the design of some new mission trajectories
beyond the now well known Genesis trajectory. |
| Application: |
These new trajectories are to a \petit grand tour" of the moons
of Jupiter. These new dynamical systems techniques allow one to create
orbits that require only half the fuel of the traditional Hohmann transfer
methods. |