Russell/Strange Saturnian moon cycler family (family seed, Titan-Enceladus focus)

russell-strange-2009-saturnian-multimoon-family · source: literature · validation: V0

Signature

Bodies: Mimas-Enceladus-Tethys-Dione-Rhea-Titan
Sequence (canonical): Saturnian-multi
Sense: n/a
Period: — yr ( × synodic)
Family seed: same paper as the Jovian family entry above (Russell/Strange 2009 JGCD). The Saturnian half of the paper gives most detail to Titan-Enceladus cyclers, several of which "found immediate application as Cassini extended missions options that provide frequent low altitude Enceladus flybys" (per search snippets of the abstract). No single period characterises the family.
Priority date: 2007-01-29

V∞ at encounters

Titan (#1): — (not published)
Family seed — JGCD paper not accessible at ingest.
Enceladus (#2): — (not published)
Same.

Orbit elements (heliocentric)

Semi-major axis a: — AU
Eccentricity e: —
Perihelion: — AU
Aphelion: — AU
Inclination: —°

Primary citation

Russell, R. P. & Strange, N. J. (2009). Cycler Trajectories in Planetary Moon Systems. Journal of Guidance, Control, and Dynamics, Vol. 32, No. 1, pp. 143-157.

DOI: 10.2514/1.36610

URL: https://arc.aiaa.org/doi/abs/10.2514/1.36610

Corroborating sources

Russell, R. P. & Strange, N. J. (2007). Planetary Moon Cycler Trajectories. AAS/AIAA Space Flight Mechanics Meeting, Sedona AZ, January 29 - February 1, 2007. · link
Conference precursor.

Notes

SCHEMA-MISMATCH FLAG: Saturnian cyclers may overlap with CR3BP territory depending on which moon pair is considered (Titan, much more massive than the Saturnian midsize moons, can be patched-conic modelled; Enceladus / Mimas / Tethys cyclers tend toward low-energy / manifold regimes that are CR3BP-natural). Treat as "candidates for future ingest" pending model decision; for now record the citation only. Per search-snippet abstract: "the Saturn-Titan-Enceladus system was investigated in the most detail in the context of recent Cassini discoveries"; "For the Titan-Enceladus cyclers, Saturn's G rings pose a hazard out to approximately 176,000 km"; "several of the high energy Titan-Enceladus cyclers found immediate application as Cassini extended missions options that provide frequent low altitude Enceladus flybys." Sibling of the Jovian-family entry above. As individual cyclers are split out, they may need new body codes for Saturnian moons (already reserved in data/README.md schema-extended section).

Source quotes (per-field provenance)

Every numerical value in this entry traces to a verbatim or paraphrased quote from a cited source.

notes: Russell/Strange 2009 JGCD abstract (via web search snippets): "the Saturn-Titan-Enceladus system was investigated in the most detail in the context of recent Cassini discoveries"; "For the Titan-Enceladus cyclers, Saturn's G rings pose a hazard out to approximately 176,000 km."