Space Systems Dynamics

The prestigious annual AAS/AIAA Astrodynamics Conference was for the first time virtual this summer. Anastasia Tselousova, our PhD student and the only Russian speaker at the conference, presented several simple instruments that help a mission designer to generate ballistic lunar transfer trajectories, a.k.a. weak stability boundary (WSB) trajectories, in a systematic and regular way.

Anastasia Tselousova, Maksim Shirobokov, and Sergey Trofimov
Geometrical Tools for the Systematic Design of Low-Energy Transfers
in the Earth-Moon-Sun System (paper, presentation)