LOW-ENERGY TRANSFERS TO AN EARTH-MOON MULTI-REVOLUTION ELLIPTIC HALO ORBIT

The Sun-Earth/Moon Patched Elliptic and Circular Restricted three-body Problem model is utilized to construct low-energy transfers to a strictly periodic orbit in the ERTBP, the Multi-revolution Elliptic Halo (ME-Halo). The ME-Halo orbit can keep its special configuration in the ephemeris model. The low-energy transfers are defined by eight parameters. The ME-Halo orbit in this paper has a three-dimensional stable manifold. A survey of all feasible low-energy transfers is presented, and the impact of the redundant dimension of the stable manifold is considered. It reveals that the redundant stable manifold affects the probability of feasible transfers in the whole parameter space.