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Aerospace engineering

region where a spacecraft is only loosely captured by a body under combined solar and planetary gravity, enabling low-energy transfers to the Moon.

In aerospace engineering, weak stability boundary refers to region where a spacecraft is only loosely captured by a body under combined solar and planetary gravity, enabling low-energy transfers to the Moon. This meaning comes from Belbruno (1993) in Journal of Guidance, Control, and Dynamics.[1]

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References

Belbruno, E. A., & Miller, J. K. (1993). Sun-perturbed Earth-to-moon transfers with ballistic capture. Journal of Guidance, Control, and Dynamics, 16(4), 770-775. https://doi.org/10.2514/3.21079

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