@Article{MeirelesRibeMeloPrad:2023:LoMaTr,
               author = "Meireles, Lucas Gouv{\^e}a and Ribeiro, Rebeca de Souza and Melo, 
                         Cristiano F. de and Prado, Antonio Fernando Bertachini de 
                         Almeida",
          affiliation = "{Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas Espaciais (INPE)} and {Instituto 
                         Nacional de Pesquisas Espaciais (INPE)} and {Universidade Federal 
                         de Minas Gerais (UFMG)} and {Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas 
                         Espaciais (INPE)}",
                title = "Low-cost Mars transfer from the Earth using solar sails and lunar 
                         swing-bys",
              journal = "European Physical Journal-Special Topics",
                 year = "2023",
               volume = "SN",
                pages = "1",
             abstract = "As the current phase of space exploration is marked by a rapidly 
                         growing number of rocket launches and space missions, techniques 
                         that would enable interplanetary missions at lower costs would 
                         also provide a more sustainable and affordable environment for 
                         space research. This paper introduces a strategy that combines the 
                         use of solar sails and lunar swing-bys to decrease the required 
                         increments of velocity (\ΔV ) to escape the EarthMoon system 
                         to reach targets as far as Mars, in the Restricted FourBody 
                         SunEarthMoonspacecraft Problem. Starting from a circular Low-Earth 
                         orbit, an increment of velocity (smaller than the one required to 
                         escape in a geocentric parabolic trajectory) is applied to the 
                         spacecraft and the solar sail is steered to maximize the gain of 
                         its orbital energy. This is done until the spacecraft performs a 
                         swing-by with the Moon. The use of this technique made it possible 
                         to reduce the \ΔV by more than 98% when compared to cases 
                         without the use of solar sails and lunar swing-bys.",
                  doi = "10.1140/epjs/s11734-023-01027-9",
                  url = "http://dx.doi.org/10.1140/epjs/s11734-023-01027-9",
                 issn = "1951-6355",
                label = "lattes: 3242133432342198 1 MeirelesRibeMeloPrad:2023:LoMaTr",
             language = "en",
           targetfile = "s11734-023-01027-9.pdf",
        urlaccessdate = "11 maio 2024"
}