1Design of a Solar Electric Propulsion mission for the interplanetary cubesat MARGO
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7.. figure:: ../images/gallery11.png
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13These plots are produced by the following code:
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15.. code-block:: python
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17   import pykep as pk
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21This example demonstrates the use of the :class:`pykep.trajopt.lt_margo` which represents, in cartesian
22coordinates, the solar electric propulsion mission of the interplanetary cubesat MARGO, studied during 2017 in
23the European Space Agency's Concurrent Design Facility. The code was used to select the best candidates for the mission.
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25The MPCORB database object "2014 YD" is used as an example. You can also activate the Earth gravity by changing the
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28The code for this example can be studied `here.
29<https://github.com/esa/pykep/blob/master/pykep/examples/_ex11.py>`_ Feel free to leave comments.
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31The study of MARGO target selection is found here:
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33Alessio Mereta and Dario Izzo: `Target selection for a small low-thrust mission to near-Earth asteroids <http://www.esa.int/gsp/ACT/doc/MAD/pub/ACT-RPR-MAD-2018-margo.pdf>`_ Astrodynamics, 2018.
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