MMS Extended Mission Design: Evaluation of a Lunar Gravity Assist Option [STUB]

Abstract: This paper will describe a study that was carried out on the design of a set of maneuvers that were considered for the later stages of an extended mission of the Magnetospheric Multiscale (MMS) mission. The goal of these maneuvers was to put MMS into a significantly different orbit from those flown heretofore, so allowing science collection in a different region of the magnetosphere. This study was made feasible by the fact that the rate at which fuel is being consumed to maintain small forma…