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The University of Surrey has introduced a new mathematical method to optimize space mission routes, enhancing efficiency by reducing the need for fuel and extensive computations. This innovative approach, likened to a “tube map for space,” has been successfully applied to missions targeting the Moon and Jupiter’s moons. Credit: SciTechDaily.com
Just as sat-nav did away with the need to argue over the best route home, scientists from the University of Surrey have developed a new method to find the optimal routes for future space missions without the need to waste fuel. “Our new technique neatly reveals all possible routes a spacecraft could take from A to B, as long as both orbits share a common energy level.Enhancing Fuel Efficiency in Space Missions
One way of doing this is to find ‘heteroclinic connections’ – the paths that allow spacecraft to transfer from one orbit to another without using fuel.
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