SOURCE: A MATLAB-ORIENTED TOOL FOR INTERPLANETARY TRAJECTORY GLOBAL OPTIMIZATION. APPLICATIONS

摘要

This is the second part of the presentation of SOURCE, a new Matlab-orientedinterplanetary global optimization tool with very short execution times. In thefirst half of the paper a quasi-local optimization stage (also part of the tool),based on the same branch and pruning algorithm as the global optimizationstage is discussed. In the second half the results of an application of the tool totwo ESA missions are presented: JUICE and Solar Orbiter. The objective hereis to validate whether the new tool can reproduce known trajectories for thesemissions and possibly find new options.