TY - GEN
T1 - Space transportation system and infrastructure design for regular interplanetary cargo missions
AU - Chen, Hao
AU - Lee, Hang Woon
AU - Ho, Koki
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2017, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics Inc, AIAA. All rights reserved.
PY - 2017
Y1 - 2017
N2 - This paper develops a computationally efficient and scalable mission planning optimization method for a regular interplanetary transportation missions over a long time horizon. As more sustainable and long-term manned missions to Mars are being conceptualized, the need for a reliable and regular interplanetary cargo transportation system has also become increasingly prominent. However, planning the regular cargo transportation mission with the existing problem formulation had a limitation in computational scalability in the time dimension. The proposed method, or also termed as partially periodic time-expanded network, is constructed to compensate the past studies’ limitations and is shown to be computationally scalable and also capable of generating solutions that are practically preferred. A case study reveals the convergence of the initial mass low-Earth orbit (IMLEO) of the regular missions to the theoretical optimal solution as the number of cargo transportation missions increases.
AB - This paper develops a computationally efficient and scalable mission planning optimization method for a regular interplanetary transportation missions over a long time horizon. As more sustainable and long-term manned missions to Mars are being conceptualized, the need for a reliable and regular interplanetary cargo transportation system has also become increasingly prominent. However, planning the regular cargo transportation mission with the existing problem formulation had a limitation in computational scalability in the time dimension. The proposed method, or also termed as partially periodic time-expanded network, is constructed to compensate the past studies’ limitations and is shown to be computationally scalable and also capable of generating solutions that are practically preferred. A case study reveals the convergence of the initial mass low-Earth orbit (IMLEO) of the regular missions to the theoretical optimal solution as the number of cargo transportation missions increases.
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U2 - 10.2514/6.2017-5197
DO - 10.2514/6.2017-5197
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85047021180
SN - 9781624104831
T3 - AIAA SPACE and Astronautics Forum and Exposition, SPACE 2017
BT - AIAA SPACE and Astronautics Forum and Exposition
T2 - AIAA Space and Astronautics Forum and Exposition, SPACE 2017
Y2 - 12 September 2017 through 14 September 2017
ER -