The invention discloses a low-thrust
spacecraft asymmetric halo
orbit design method, and belongs to the field of
spacecraft orbits. The problem that the periodicity and stability of the
orbit of a low-thrust
spacecraft cannot be guaranteed under the condition that the plane of the halo
orbit is asymmetric is solved. The method comprises the following steps: calculating a halo orbit satisfying a
resonance relation with a second gravitational body orbit period; the eccentricity rate of the second gravitational body orbit is continued from zero to the actual eccentricity rate through numerical
continuation in the first step, and a zero-thrust
resonance halo orbit is obtained; through numerical
continuation in the second step, the thrust
acceleration amplitude is continued from zero to a preset upper limit while the thrust direction of the spacecraft is kept in the sun-spacecraft connecting line direction; through numerical
continuation in the third step, the thrust taper angle is continued from zero to the preset upper limit under the gravity plane coordinate
system; and through numerical continuation in the fourth step, the thrust
azimuth angle is continued from zero to a preset value under the gravity plane coordinate
system, and finally the asymmetric halo orbit is obtained. The method is suitable for circular and elliptical restrictive three-body problems.