Jamie Young - 16/2/2006 1:33 PMCould someone explain what Delta V is? Thanks.
vanilla - 9/2/2006 8:18 PMWhile I can imagine that there will be some favorable cases, my read on this (and I'm a fairly good astrodynamicist) is that in general, the loitering time needed to reduce plane change penalties will outweigh the transit time penalties of the L2 architechure. Same with DV--sometimes LOR will be better, but in general, due to the ESAS constraint of "global access, anytime return", I think it will be worse, and if we design to the worst-case DV scenario, then what does it really matter if sometimes it gets better?Thoughts, comments?
chocolate - 18/2/2006 2:18 PMHuman Lunar Exploration Mission Architectures by John Connolly, circa March 2004.
rsp1202 - 2/3/2006 3:30 PMMy limited understanding of orbital mechanics leads me to ask this question: The L1, L2 and L3 points are considered to be unstable. In the context of this thread, this means that using L1 or L2 for lunar mission staging would still require X amount of fuel for station-keeping, but not as much as LOR or other techniques?