In the Earth-Moon system, low-energy orbits are transfer trajectories from the earth to a circumlunar orbit that require less propellant consumption when compared to the traditional methods. In this work we use a Monte Carlo approach to study a great number of such transfer orbits over a wide range of initial conditions. We make statistical and operational considerations on the resulting data, leading to the description of a reliable way of finding "optimal" mission orbits with the tools of multi-objective optimization.
@article{arxiv.1109.5393,
title = {A study of low-energy transfer orbits to the Moon: towards an operational optimization technique},
author = {Roberto Capuzzo-Dolcetta and Marco Giancotti},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1109.5393},
year = {2015}
}