Space Mission Planning: Multi-Body Trajectories for Space Vehicles

Over the last decade the three body problem has emerged as the standard model for defining reference trajectories in space. It is now essentially feasible to patch together segments of trajectories defined by different sets of three bodies and construct a reasonably feasible trajectory in space. The actual trajectories may be constructed by solutions to either the circular restricted or the elliptic restricted three body problems (RTBP). For example, the stable manifolds of a three body clu...