کد مقاله | کد نشریه | سال انتشار | مقاله انگلیسی | نسخه تمام متن |
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1714612 | 1519950 | 2014 | 9 صفحه PDF | دانلود رایگان |
• Natural regions near libration point orbits to place small formations of spacecraft.
• Regions of small relative accelerations between spacecraft maintain a formation.
• Low natural drift regions reduce the cost to maintain a formation fixed inertially.
This investigation explores the natural dynamics in a multi-body regime for formation flying applications. Natural regions that are suitable to maintain multiple spacecraft in a loose formation are determined in an inertial coordinate frame. Locating a formation of spacecraft in these zones leads to a smaller variation in the mutual distance between the spacecraft and the pointing direction of the formation. These suitable regions approximate quadric surfaces along a reference trajectory and the relationship between the dynamical evolution of the quadric surfaces and the eigenstructure of the reference trajectory is examined.
Journal: Acta Astronautica - Volume 102, September–October 2014, Pages 332–340