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I was doing some looking into hyberbolic trasfers between planets and by luck came up with this document here.
https://engineering.purdue.edu/peop...06GuidanceStrategyforHyperbolicRendezvous.pdf
Which discusses the idea of Earth-Mars/Mars-Earth cycler ships. I remember reading about this before in science fiction novel about 4 cycler stations that orbit in such a way than can perform fly by free returns to lap between martian and earth orbit regularly.
This way small taxi ships from earth could fly up and meet with the cycler ship and be carried to mars and detached while the cycler ship flies by mars and free returns to earth.
This document gave much information but seriously I'm not an orbital mechanics guy I'm out of my league here on where to even begin to calculate the proper math to set something like this up in orbiter and some helpful links and suggestions would be appreciated.
https://engineering.purdue.edu/peop...06GuidanceStrategyforHyperbolicRendezvous.pdf
Which discusses the idea of Earth-Mars/Mars-Earth cycler ships. I remember reading about this before in science fiction novel about 4 cycler stations that orbit in such a way than can perform fly by free returns to lap between martian and earth orbit regularly.
This way small taxi ships from earth could fly up and meet with the cycler ship and be carried to mars and detached while the cycler ship flies by mars and free returns to earth.
This document gave much information but seriously I'm not an orbital mechanics guy I'm out of my league here on where to even begin to calculate the proper math to set something like this up in orbiter and some helpful links and suggestions would be appreciated.