Abstract

To achieve the minimal fuel consumption, the Pontryagin maximum principle is utilized to generate an optimal guidance law for the whole process of the lunar probe's soft landing which starts off from the perilune. It is shown that the singularity condition can not hold along an optimal trajectory on any closed time interval.

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