Skip to main content

All Questions

Filter by
Sorted by
Tagged with
0 votes
0 answers
107 views

Is a 2:1 "figure-eight" Lissajous orbit possible in the Circular Restricted Three Body Problem?

Was Queqiao in a halo or Lissajous orbit? Why do sources disagree? says Proper halo orbits have the same period for their in-plane oscillations and out of plane oscillations, so they are closed ...
uhoh's user avatar
  • 151k
4 votes
1 answer
463 views

Do ("non-halo") Lissajous orbits have stable/unstable manifolds?

The question Did DSCOVR travel “along the stable manifold of its future SE L1 Halo orbit” to get there? is specific to DSCOVR's trajectory from Earth to its primarily heliocentric orbit near Sun-Earth ...
uhoh's user avatar
  • 151k