Mission Analysis for the EM-1 CubeSats EQUULEUS and OMOTENASHI

OMOTENASHE and EQUULEUS are two 6-U CubeSats by JAXA and The University of Tokyo to be launched in 2019 onboard of NASA's Exploration Mission 1. This paper presents the nominal trajectories and an overview of the mission analysis work and approaches. EQUULEUS trajectory exploits the Earth -Sun -Moon dynamics to capture the spacecraft into a libration orbit around the Earth -Moon L2 point, using on...