Russell-Strange Titan-Enceladus ideal-model ballistic cycler no. 235 (Table 4; 5-leg)

russell-strange-2009-titenc-235 · source: literature · validation: V0

Signature

Bodies: Titan-Enceladus
Primary: Saturn
Sequence (canonical): Titan-Enceladus-Titan
Sense: n/a
Orbit class: Cycler
strict cycler (infinite returns)
Cycler class: multi-arc
Trajectory regime: ballistic
Maintenance ΔV band: unclassified
Model assumption: circular-coplanar
Idealised: planets on circles, coplanar ecliptic.
Period: not strictly periodic (no published period)
Source ephemeris: ideal circular-coplanar Saturnian model (Russell-Strange 2009 §III)
Ephemeris model the source states its numbers were computed against.
Priority date

V∞ at encounters

Titan (encounter 1): 3.18 km/s
Russell-Strange 2009 Table 4, TitEnc#235: Titan (flyby-body) V_inf. 5-leg ideal free-return cycler, period 97.4 d, petal 2.41 yr, min Titan flyby altitude 1843 km.
Enceladus (encounter 2): 6.04 km/s
Russell-Strange 2009 Table 4, TitEnc#235: Enceladus (target-body) V_inf.

Cycle-level identity (multi-arc invariants)

Aphelion ratio (AR): —
Turn ratio (TR): —
Transit times (days): —

Orbit view 2.5D ecliptic projection

spacecraft: idealized coplanar ellipse planets: J2000 osculating ellipse (Standish & Williams Table 1) orientation: coplanar-idealized (no Ω/ω published — in-plane ellipse)

3D view not available for multi-arc trajectories yet. The 3D system can now render a numerically-sampled polyline (n-body or multi-arc), but no sampled trajectory is published for this row — each leg is a separate ellipse with honest gaps where elements are unpublished (the 2D view above shows them). The button will appear here once a sampled path is exported for this trajectory; we never interpolate one from the catalogue's per-leg (a, e).

— — planet orbit (true J2000 ellipse)

Definition status

incomplete — core fields missing or known-unknowns tracked below

Primary citation

R. P. Russell & N. J. Strange (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/10.2514/1.36610

Notes

Russell-Strange 2009 (DOI 10.2514/1.36610) Table 4 + Table 6 leg descriptor; V0 = sourced ideal-model ballistic Titan-Enceladus cycler; n_legs=5, period 97.4 d. ingestion.