Three-Body Earth-Moon Transfers with Different Departure/Arrival Orbital Altitudes: New Phenomenon and Diffusion Model-Augmented Construction
Abstract
Construction of Earth-Moon transfers is the basis of missions to explore the Moon and cislunar space. The traditional grid search method suffers from a relatively low convergence rate and computational efficiency, mainly focusing on the distribution of transfer characteristic parameters. Moreover, when constructing transfers with different departure/arrival orbital altitudes, the process of grid search and trajectory correction should be repeated with a low convergence rate and computational efficiency. To address these limitations of the traditional grid search method, this paper is devoted to exploring an effective way to augment the grid search method. Bi-impulsive Earth-Moon transfers from a circular Earth parking orbit to a circular Moon target orbit in the Earth-Moon planar circular restricted three-body problem are considered in this paper. Firstly, the transfers are constructed, and the corresponding solution space is explored in terms of construction parameters, including departure phase angle at the Earth parking orbit, initial-to-circular velocity ratio, and time of flight. An interesting phenomenon about the discontinuous behavior of the time-of-flight distribution with respect to departure phase angle is identified. This phenomenon is further used to train a diffusion model, which aims to augment the traditional grid search method and generate high-quality initial guesses for transfers with different departure/arrival orbital altitudes. The construction results and the preliminary applicable range of the proposed method are presented and analyzed. The proposed diffusion model-augmented grid search method improves the convergence rate by 47.34-56.25% and saves wall-clock time by 39.39-40.52% with respect to the traditional grid search method, while ensuring comparable transfer characteristics.
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BibTeX
@misc{fu2026threebody,
title = {{Three-Body Earth-Moon Transfers with Different Departure/Arrival Orbital Altitudes: New Phenomenon and Diffusion Model-Augmented Construction}},
author = {Shuyue Fu and Wenxuan Zhang and Di Wu and Shengping Gong and Peng Shi},
howpublished = {arXiv},
year = {2026},
month = oct,
doi = {10.48550/arxiv.2606.28207},
eprint = {2606.28207},
archivePrefix = {arXiv},
url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2606.28207},
note = {CC BY-NC-ND 4.0},
}
RIS
TY - UNPB
TI - Three-Body Earth-Moon Transfers with Different Departure/Arrival Orbital Altitudes: New Phenomenon and Diffusion Model-Augmented Construction
AU - Shuyue Fu
AU - Wenxuan Zhang
AU - Di Wu
AU - Shengping Gong
AU - Peng Shi
PY - 2026
DA - 2026/10/19
PB - arXiv
DO - 10.48550/arxiv.2606.28207
UR - https://arxiv.org/abs/2606.28207
AB - Construction of Earth-Moon transfers is the basis of missions to explore the Moon and cislunar space. The traditional grid search method suffers from a relatively low convergence rate and computational efficiency, mainly focusing on the distribution of transfer characteristic parameters. Moreover, when constructing transfers with different departure/arrival orbital altitudes, the process of grid search and trajectory correction should be repeated with a low convergence rate and computational efficiency. To address these limitations of the traditional grid search method, this paper is devoted to exploring an effective way to augment the grid search method. Bi-impulsive Earth-Moon transfers from a circular Earth parking orbit to a circular Moon target orbit in the Earth-Moon planar circular restricted three-body problem are considered in this paper. Firstly, the transfers are constructed, and the corresponding solution space is explored in terms of construction parameters, including departure phase angle at the Earth parking orbit, initial-to-circular velocity ratio, and time of flight. An interesting phenomenon about the discontinuous behavior of the time-of-flight distribution with respect to departure phase angle is identified. This phenomenon is further used to train a diffusion model, which aims to augment the traditional grid search method and generate high-quality initial guesses for transfers with different departure/arrival orbital altitudes. The construction results and the preliminary applicable range of the proposed method are presented and analyzed. The proposed diffusion model-augmented grid search method improves the convergence rate by 47.34-56.25% and saves wall-clock time by 39.39-40.52% with respect to the traditional grid search method, while ensuring comparable transfer characteristics.
ER -