4th AEROTECH- Innovation in Aerospace Engineering and Technology | |
Quasi-satellite system for leader-follower spacecraft formation | |
航空航天工程 | |
Harithuddin, A.S.M.^1 | |
Department of Aerospace Engineering, Universiti Putra Malaysia, Serdang | |
43400, Malaysia^1 | |
关键词: Celestial bodies; Initial conditions; Parametric -analysis; Satellite dynamics; Satellite formations; Satellite motions; Spacecraft formation flight; Spacecraft formations; | |
Others : https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1757-899X/152/1/012034/pdf DOI : 10.1088/1757-899X/152/1/012034 |
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学科分类:航空航天科学 | |
来源: IOP | |
【 摘 要 】
The quasi-satellite motion is where a celestial body appears to orbit around another body that is also orbiting a common focus. The recent discoveries of asteroids in quasi-satellite motion around the Earth inspired this work. This paper attempts to look into exploiting the quasi-satellite dynamics in nature to provide a new perspective in spacecraft formation flight. We consider a two-spacecraft formation flight in which the follower appears to orbit of the leader in its reference frame. We perform a parametric analysis by varying the orbital elements of leader and follower examine the initial conditions needed to simulate a quasi-satellite formation system. We illustrate the trajectories of the follower spacecraft. This serves two purposes: firstly, to demonstrate formation flight based on the idea of quasi-satellite; and secondly, to gain some insights on the shapes of the resultant "quasi-orbits".
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