THE GRAVITY-PERTURBED LAMBERT PROBLEM - A KS VARIATION OF PARAMETERS APPROACH Academic Article

abstract

• A new formulation is presented for the perturbed Lambert problem. The formulation employs the variation-of-parameters method in the KS transformed state space to determine perturbations of a Keplerian Lambert solution. The approach is universal (in that its validity is not restricted to a particular energy domain). For the case of the second zonal harmonic (oblateness) perturbation, first order perturbations are carried out entirely analytically; non-iterative corrections are determined through solution of a pair of algebraic equations. For more general perturbations, numerical quadratures are required. 1981 D. Reidel Publishing Co.

authors

• Junkins, John

published proceedings

• CELESTIAL MECHANICS

author list (cited authors)

• ENGELS, R. C., & JUNKINS, J. L.

citation count

• 38

publication date

• May 1981

publisher

• Springer Nature  Publisher

keywords

• 51 Physical Sciences
• 5101 Astronomical Sciences

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

• 10.1007/BF01228790

start page

• 3

end page

• 21

volume

• 24

issue

• 1