@Article{SantosCarvPradMora:2015:SeLePe,
author = "Santos, J. Cardoso dos and Carvalho, J. P. S. and Prado, Antonio
Fernando Bertachini de Almeida and Moraes, R. Vilhena de",
affiliation = "{Universidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP)} and {Universidade Federal
do Rec{\^o}ncavo Baiano (UFRB)} and {Instituto Nacional de
Pesquisas Espaciais (INPE)} and {Universidade Federal de S{\~a}o
Paulo (UNIFESP)}",
title = "Searching for less perturbed elliptical orbits around Europa",
journal = "Journal of Physics: Conference Series",
year = "2015",
volume = "641",
pages = "012011",
keywords = "Astrodin{\^a}mica.",
abstract = "Space missions intending to visit Europa, one of the famous
Galileans moons of Jupiter, are among the most important topics in
space activities today. There is an increasing interest in the
scientific community to send spacecrafts to be inserted into
Europas orbit, with goals like mapping its surface and
gravitational field. From the quality of the observations until
the orbital maneuvers, the required aspects for the success of the
mission will depend on the orbits used by the spacecraft. The
present work searches for less perturbed elliptical orbits around
Europa, because they are very important, since these orbits are
expected to be more stable to place the spacecraft. The
development of the study is based on the net effects of the
perturbing forces over the time, evaluated by the integral of
those forces with respect to the time. The value of this integral
depends both on the dynamical model and the orbit of the
spacecraft. Jupiters third-body perturbation and the J2 and J3
terms of the gravitational potential of Europa are the perturbing
forces considered. The results presented here are obtained by
performing numerical integrations of the perturbing forces, and
they show the locations of the less perturbed orbits.",
doi = "10.1088/1742-6596/641/1/012011",
url = "http://dx.doi.org/10.1088/1742-6596/641/1/012011",
issn = "1742-6588",
label = "lattes: 7340081273816424 3 SantosCarvPradMora:2015:SeLePe",
language = "pt",
targetfile = "1_santos3.pdf",
urlaccessdate = "15 jun. 2024"
}