Tracing Position in the Regime of the Restricted Three-Body Problem to a Halo Orbit

Abstract: Driven by the desire to find positions that satisfy keepout constraints for a space-based telescope mission, this work develops a process for tracing a point in space in the regime of the restricted three-body problem to a halo orbit, characterized by its out-of-plane amplitude, and its position on that halo orbit, denoted by the halo orbit time. This process utilizes third-order solutions from the Lindstedt-Poincare method, which have been partially inverted to expect a point in space as an input. Three different methodologies that use these partially inverted expressions are presented. Results are produced for 1,000 randomly selected points using all three methods and are compared to truth. Ultimately, the method that employed two distinct accuracy metrics yielded the most accurate results for the dataset.