Revisit of the Theorem of Image Trajectories in the Earth-Moon Space

Angelo Miele ()
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Angelo Miele: Rice University

Journal of Optimization Theory and Applications, 2010, vol. 147, issue 3, No 5, 483-490

Abstract: Abstract On the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the theorem of the image trajectories in the Earth-Moon space, the author revisits the theorem and clarifies the relation between the class of image trajectories and the class of symmetric free-return trajectories, which were employed in the Apollo program. In a nutshell, the symmetric free-return trajectories are those image trajectories that intersect the Earth-Moon axis orthogonally at some point above the far side of the Moon. Optimization implications are pointed out.

Keywords: Lunar trajectories; Earth-Moon and Moon-Earth trajectories; Image trajectories; Symmetric free-return trajectories; Apollo program (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2010
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DOI: 10.1007/s10957-010-9734-x

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