Low-Energy Transfers to Quasi-Halo Orbit in a Sun-Perturbed Environment

Interest in the exploitation of the cislunar environment is growing tremendously. This paper explores the process of designing exterior, multi-impulse Earth-to-Halo transfers within a Sun-perturbed environment. Initial trajectories, generated using fundamental concepts of dynamical systems theory, are optimized and made compliant to the case study. The cost to insert into a Quasi-Halo trajectory is then investigated. Analysis of the results allows inferring relations between design parameters. As a new era of lunar exploration approaches, this work proposes a practical approach for designing efficient cislunar transfers to strategic orbits.