Design of Transfer Trajectories Between Planar and Spatial Quasi-Satellite Orbits

Transfers around Phobos via bifurcated retrograde orbits: Applications to Martian Moons eXploration mission

“…To this end, Ichinomiya et al [24] and Pushparaj et al [25] investigated the application of bifurcated multi-revolution QSOs to connect different trajectories of the Mars-Phobos system, departing from a fixed along-track direction. Canalias et al [26] and Pushparaj et al [27] further explored transfers to out-of plane QSOs using two-impulse maneuvers and invariant manifolds, respectively. The present paper introduces transfer maps that account for the feasible transfers from multiple departure and arrival points between planar QSOs using bifurcated multi-revolution QSOs.…”