Characteristic analysis and design of near moon abort trajectory for manned lunar landing mission

✍ Scribed by WenDe Huang; XiaoNing Xi; Wei Wang

• Book ID: 107356783
• Publisher: SP Science China Press
• Year: 2010
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 850 KB
• Volume: 53
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 1006-9321
• DOI: 10.1007/s11431-010-4118-x

✦ Synopsis

The safety of astronauts would be severely threatened if the lunar-landing spacecraft were under an emergency during the near moon phase of flight, which was far from the Earth. For the problem of mission abort caused by the main engine (service propulsion system, SPS) failure during lunar orbit insertion, firstly, the family of trajectories resulted from SPS premature shutdown and corresponding abort trajectories were analyzed; then an algorithm that can be applied to the near moon abort trajectories was proposed using patched-conic technique. The characteristics of the abort trajectory, such as energy consumption and return time of flight, were analyzed and presented. Finally, simulation examples were given to demonstrate various cases of near moon SPS failure. The results of the simulation have validated the approach proposed.