Influence of Solar Accelaration on the Earth Moon CR3BP

This project explores how solar gravitational perturbations impact periodic satellite orbits around Earth-Moon Lagrange points. Key Achievements: • Developed MATLAB scripts to integrate differential equations of motion via ode45, with and without solar perturbation • Transitioned from 3-body to 4-body modeling by introducing the Sun as a dynamic force, calculating real-time solar acceleration using trigonometric orbital positioning • Analyzed the orbit deformation after one and fifty orbital periods to study long-term perturbative effects Skills: MATLAB, Orbital Mechanics