Low-Thrust Trajectory Design Module

These pages of the wiki will give you an overview of the low-thrust trajectory design module in Tudat, and provide you insights into how to set-up the different design methods which are part of it.

• 1. Low-Thrust Trajectories
  • 1.1. Low-Thrust trajectory leg
  • 1.2. Setting up a low-thrust trajectory
  • 1.3. Optimising a low-thrust trajectory
• 2. Sims-Flanagan Method
  • 2.1. Sims-Flanagan optimisation problem
  • 2.2. Sims-Flanagan trajectory model
  • 2.3. Using shape-based trajectory as an initial guess
• 3. Hybrid Method
  • 3.1. Hybrid method optimisation problem
  • 3.2. Hybrid method trajectory model
• 4. Shape-Based Methods
  • 4.1. Hodographic shaping
  • 4.2. Spherical shaping