Orbital transfer: Some links between the low-thrust and the impulse cases |
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| Institution: | 1. School of Aeronautic Science and Engineering, Beihang University, Beijing 100191, China;2. Department of Aerospace Engineering, Iowa State University, Ames, IA 50011, USA;1. Academy of Opto-Electronics, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, 100094 Beijing, People''s Republic of China;2. Academy of Opto-Electronics, 100094 Beijing, People''s Republic of China;3. Key Laboratory of Space Utilization, Technology and Engineering Center for Space Utilization, 100094 Beijing, People''s Republic of China;1. Department of Aerospace Engineering, Sharif University of Technology, Tehran, 14588-89694, Iran;2. Center for Research and Development in Space Science and Technology, Sharif University of Technology, Tehran, 14588-89694, Iran |
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| Abstract: | Here, we investigate an orbital transfer from a low Earth orbit to the geostationary one where the considered criterion to maximize is the final mass. We seek to observe numerically the connections between the impulse transfer and the low-thrust one after giving two computational methods in each cases. We see that the links are very strong and that the impulse transfer can be viewed as the limit of the low-thrust transfer when its number of revolutions increases. |
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