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Old November 18th 03, 10:21 PM
Greg
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Default Optimum constant-thrust transfers?

(Bertil Jonell) wrote in message ...
There has been a lot of work done on Hohman and Bielliptic transfers,
but has there been anything on constant-thrust transfers? Of course, the
"optimum" in this case won't be lowest deltaV, but shortest time for a
given acceleration?

Does anyone have any pointers to online papers?

-bertil-


Quite a lot of work has been done on this. Look up solar sails or ion
engins, you'll be sure to find a few..