Using Chaos to Guide a Spacecraft to the moon

• Published in: Acta astronautica Vol. 47; no. 12; pp. 871 - 878
• Main Author: Macau, Elbert E.N
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Elsevier Ltd 01.12.2000
• Subjects: Chaos theory; Mathematical models; Moon; Problem solving; Resonance; Sensitivity analysis; Transport properties

Significant results were already achieved in the guidance of spacecrafts by using the characteristics of the chaotic system. The space agency NASA, in 1987, made use of the sensitive dependence on initial conditions in the classical three-body problem to maneuver ISEE-3 spacecraft towards a comet by...