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DESTINY+ Trajectory Design to (3200) Phaethon

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This work explores the target selection and trajectory design of the mission candidate for ISAS/JAXA’s small science satellite series, DESTINY PLUS or DESTINY+. This mission combines unique aspects of the latest satellite technology and exploration of transition bodies to fill a technical and scientific gap in the Japanese space science program. The spacecraft is targeted to study the comet-asteroid transition body (3200) Phaethon through a combination of low-thrust propulsion and Earth Gravity Assist. The trajectory design concept is presented in details together with the launch window and flyby date analysis. Alternative targets for a possible mission extension scenario are also explored.

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  1. Department of Space Flight Systems, Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (ISAS/JAXA), Tokyo, Japan

    Bruno Victorino Sarli, Yasuhiro Kawakatsu & Takayuki Yamamoto

  2. Department of Applied Mechanics, Waseda University, 3-4-1 Okubo, Shinjuku, Tokyo, Japan

    Makoto Horikawa

  3. ispace, Inc., Tokyo, Japan

    Chit Hong Yam

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Appendix: Optimization Results

Appendix: Optimization Results

Tables 6, 7, 8, and 9 present the optimized cases for each structure analyzed on the EARTH-TO-PHAETHON OPTIMAL TRAJECTORIES section. In the following Tables 6, 8, and 9: the fist column is the number of the simulated case, the second column are the bounds in days for the Earth escape date. Columns three to five are the bounds in days for the flyby events of each body in the structure sequence (columns three to four in Table 7 - the problem structure has one swing-by less). The sixth column shows the final mass (column five in Table 7). Columns seven to ten present the dates of each flyby event, these dates correspond to the bounds from columns three to five (columns six to nine in Table 7).

Table 6 Earth-Earth-Phaethon-Earth optimizations
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Table 8 Earth-Phaethon-Earth-Phaethon optimizations
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Table 9 Earth-Phaethon-Phaethon optimizations
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Sarli, B.V., Horikawa, M., Yam, C.H. et al. DESTINY+ Trajectory Design to (3200) Phaethon. J of Astronaut Sci 65, 82–110 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1007/s40295-017-0117-5

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