Abstract
This paper proposes an approach to design a rendezvous trajectory for active debris removal. Designing the active debris removal mission, it is preferable to remove multiple debris sequentially in a single mission in terms of cost efficiency. The trajectory design procedure has the following three steps: selecting the removal target debris from many candidates; specifying the removal order; and designing the rendezvous trajectory with a low ΔV. Lambert's problem is applied as the rendezvous motion equation to design the transfer orbit from debris to next target debris. To demonstrate the feasibility of the proposed design procedure, some numerical results using genetic algorithm are shown.
