1. Transfer in minimum time
This section deals with minimum-time transfer, taking eclipses into account.
We place ourselves in a geocentric inertial frame of reference (OXYZ) called ECI (Earth Centered Inertial) whose X and Z axes point respectively to the vernal point V and the North Pole. The Sun's relative motion around the Earth is a circular orbit in the ecliptic plane, with an inclination (or obliquity) of i
s
= 23.45° to the equator, intersecting along OX (figure
1
). The Sun's α
s
anomaly is measured from the X axis. The values α
...
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