The patched conic approximation is highly accurate for Hohmann interplanetary transfers
Current aerospace literature supports the use of the patched conic approximation for designing interplanetary trajectories, demonstrating that it yields efficient and sufficiently accurate solutions for mission planning without requiring full n-body simulations.
The claim is a specific, empirical statement about orbital mechanics and mission design methods. The retrieved papers discuss and validate the effectiveness of patched-conic methods for interplanetary trajectories. No papers refute the claim, leading to a verdict of SUPPORTED.
M. Iwabuchi, Satoshi Satoh, Katsuhiko Yamada. Smooth and continuous interplanetary trajectory design of spacecraft using iterative patched-conic method. 2021. https://doi.org/10.1016/J.ACTAASTRO.2021.04.021
Paper [0] demonstrates that the iterative patched-conic method effectively generates accurate approximate interplanetary trajectories close to the optimal n-body solution.
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A. M. Abdelaziz, S. Tealib. Enhancing Earth-Mars Transfer Trajectories: A Conic Patch Method Using Evolutionary Algorithms. 2025. https://doi.org/10.1088/1742-6596/3070/1/012019
Paper [2] shows that patched-conic methods using optimization successfully design efficient Earth-Mars transfer trajectories with practical computational performance.
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