• DocumentCode
    1127580
  • Title

    Computation of Optimal Earth-Mars and Earth-Venus Trajectories

  • Author

    Powers, William F. ; Yoshimura, Shoichi

  • Author_Institution
    Department of Aerospace Engineering University of Michigan Ann Arbor, MI 48109
  • Issue
    5
  • fYear
    1977
  • Firstpage
    549
  • Lastpage
    550
  • Abstract
    Accurate solutions of minimal time Earth-Mars and Earth-Venus heliocentric trajectories are calculated with a shooting-Newton method. The flight times are less and the steering histories are diferent than those presented in [1], thus contradicting the optimality claims in [1].
  • Keywords
    Aerospace simulation; Boundary conditions; Equations; Fuels; Gradient methods; History; Lagrangian functions; Optimal control; User-generated content;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Journal_Title
    Aerospace and Electronic Systems, IEEE Transactions on
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • ISSN
    0018-9251
  • Type

    jour

  • DOI
    10.1109/TAES.1977.308424
  • Filename
    4101870