Planar close encounter trajectories for spacecrafts passing near Jupiter Original Research Article

In this research, we study trajectories that make a close approach with the planet Jupiter. The main goal is to obtain the velocity increments required to start or to stop the spacecraft at the Earth and the flight path angle at the meeting point for trajectories that cross the Earth’s orbit around the Sun before or after the passage by Jupiter. The regularized planar restricted circular three-body problem is used as the mathematical model. Several trajectories are found and shown in detail, including the impulses required for those maneuvers.