V V Ivashkin
Articles written in Journal of Earth System Science
Volume 114 Issue 6 December 2005 pp 613-618
Low energy trajectories for the Moon-to-Earth space flight
The Moon-to-Earth low energy trajectories of ‘detour’ type are found and studied within the frame of the Moon-Earth-Sun-particle system. These trajectories use a passive flight to the Earth from an initial elliptic selenocentric orbit with a high aposelenium. The Earth perturbation increases the particle selenocentric energy from a negative value first to zero and then to a positive one and therefore leads to a passive escape of the particle motion from the Moon attraction near the translunar libration point
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