Speaker
Mr
christophe Koppel
(KopooS Consulting Ind.)
Description
Halo orbits and other periodic orbits in the restricted circular 3 body problem has always been very well explained in the literature since their discovery by Farquhar in the 60 of last century. However for finding the numerical values of such orbits, the availability of the tools dedicated for such tasks is not obvious. Due to the fact that the differential equations are quite simple, those days most of the time tools used are based on some computer listings written within an US based mathematical framework, which is clearly dedicated for people highly involved in computer and computer language rather than for general purpose Engineers.
Hence the approach chosen in the paper is to rely on a tool largely used by Engineers (and not computer guys) for taking advantage of the capabilities of solving dynamic problems: the tool used is a European tool which is a object oriented solver of differential equations which is the cornerstone of the Spacecraft Simulator (ESPSS -EcosimPro® European Space Propulsion System Simulation) largely used by engineers.
The paper presents the mathematical problem in simple words and the method used to solve it.
The major advantages of the approach proposed and used successfully is to benefit of a real simulation framework based on models and on experiments where there are no mixing between the inputs\outputs needs and the real problem being to be solved. Hence the full model can be clearly and explicitly described while the results coming from the experiments can be extensively assessed and analysed with simple monitor outputs.
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Primary author
Mr
christophe Koppel
(KopooS Consulting Ind.)
