Low-Energy Lunar Trajectory Design / JPL Deep-Space Communications and Navigation Series (PDF)

Based on years of research conducted at the NASA Jet Propulsion
Laboratory, Low-Energy Lunar Trajectory Design provides
high-level information to mission managers and detailed information
to mission designers about low-energy transfers between Earth and
the moon. The book answers high-level questions about the
availability and performance of such transfers in any given month
and year. Low-energy lunar transfers are compared with various
other types of transfers, and placed within the context of
historical missions.

Using this book, designers may reconstruct any transfer
described therein, as well as design similar transfers with
particular design parameters.

An Appendix, "Locating the Lagrange Points," and a
useful list of terms and constants completes this technical
reference.

* Surveys thousands of possible trajectories that may be used to
transfer spacecraft between Earth and the moon, including transfers
to lunar libration orbits, low lunar orbits, and the lunar
surface

* Provides information about the methods, models, and tools used
to design low-energy lunar transfers

* Includes discussion about the variations of these transfers
from one month to the next, and the important operational aspects
of implementing a low-energy lunar transfer

* Additional discussions address navigation, station-keeping, and
spacecraft systems issues