Optimal Solar Sail Control for Launching Into Artificial Periodic Orbitsnear L2 of Earth-Moon System
Olga Leonardovna Starinova
Samara National Research University, Samara
Abstract
Over the past decade, the Moon exploration, especially its far side and polar regions, will become a priority of space programs. Communication and navigation systems are necessary for the successful its implementation. Natural periodic orbits around the L2 point of the Earth-Moon or Sun-Earth system are often chosen for the operation space system. The talk gives the method of forming solar sail control for flights between periodic orbits lying near the L2 liberation point of the Earth-Moon system. Optimal flights to artificial resonant orbits of the second order are considered in terms of minimal flight duration in the tree body problem frame. Effective algorithms that allow obtaining the required control programs are described and the obtained results dependencies on the model parameters are analyzed.
Biography
Academician of the International Academy of Navigation and Motion Control, the Russian academy of Cosmonautics named K.E. Tsiolkovsky, the Academy of Aeronautic and Astronautic France, adviser to the Russian Engineering Academy. She is an expert in dynamics, ballistics and motion control of low-thrust spacecraft. The here research areas are a flight dynamics and motion control of electric propulsion spacecraft or solar sail spacecraft in gravitational fields of complex configuration, development of numerical methods for optimizing control programs for low-thrust spacecraft. Author of more than 250 papers on problems of optimal control of spacecraft, ballistic design, mathematical modeling. She is the author and co-author of monographs: Methods for solving variational problems of low-thrust space flight mechanics, Calculation of interplanetary flights of low-thrust spacecraft, Solar sailing terminology: Russian-English-Chinese Guide Textbook(in Russian, Chinese, English). She has 18 patents developed by her with a team of software complexes.
She works as the head of the Department of Flight Dynamics and Control Systems and the chief researcher of the research Laboratory Dynamics and Motion Control of Aircraft of Samara National Research University, Russia. She was awarded Medal of Alexander Humboldt of the European Academy of Natural Science, Medal of Sergey Pavlovich Korolev of the Cosmonautics Federation of Russia, Medal of Carl Friedrich Gauss of the European Academy of Natural Science, Badge Honored Worker in the Youth Policy Field of the Science and Education Ministry of Russian Federation.
