Multi-Rendezvous Solar Electric Propulsion Mission Opportunities to Jupiter Trojans

Abstract

Jupiter Trojans are a group of small bodies (sized rarely up to some hundred kilometers), which gather at the L4 and L5 Libration Points of the Jupiter–Sun system. Max Wolfe discovered the first Trojan asteroid in 1906 and named it Archilles and by that coined the term of Jupiter Trojans, as figures from the Trojan epos became namesakes for subsequent discoveries in that region of the solar system (Jewitt et al. in Jupiter’s outer satellites and Trojans, Jupiter—the planet, satellites and mangetosphere. Cambridge Planetary Science. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2004).