Baresi, Nicola;
Owen, Danny;
Herasimenka, Alesia;
Green, Lucie;
Morgan, Huw;
Underwood, Craig;
Bridges, Chris;
... Eckersley, Steve; + view all
(2020)
Trajectory Design and Optimization of the Moon-Enabled Sun Occultation Mission.
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Proceedings of the 235th Meeting of the American Astronomical Society.
American Astronomical Society (AAS): Honolulu, HI, USA.
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Abstract
The study of the solar corona has important ramifications on the understanding and forecasting of space weather phenomena. Yet, regardless of scientific breakthroughs brought by space-based coronagraphs, access to the lowest layers of the Sun’s atmosphere remains possible mostly during rare and sporadic total solar eclipses on Earth. This paper introduces the preliminary trajectory design analyses of a Moon-Enabled Sun Occultation Mission (MESOM), which capitalizes on synodic resonant orbits in the Sun-Earth-Moon four body problem to enable global and high-quality measurements of the solar corona below 1.02 sun radii once every synodic month (e.g., 29.6 days).
| Type: | Proceedings paper |
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| Title: | Trajectory Design and Optimization of the Moon-Enabled Sun Occultation Mission |
| Event: | 235th Meeting of the American Astronomical Society |
| Location: | Hawaii |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| Publisher version: | https://aas.org/meetings/aas235 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | This version is the author accepted manuscript. For information on re-use, please refer to the publisher’s terms and conditions. |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of Maths and Physical Sciences UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of Maths and Physical Sciences > Dept of Space and Climate Physics |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10213995 |
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