On dynamical formulations of a tethered satellite system with mass transport
Abstract
Two satellites connected by a long flexible tether along the earth radial direction comprise a stable equilibrium state. This paper deals with formulations of in-plane motion of the tether connected satellites with a third mass transporting from one satellite to the other. Systems of equations of motion formulated by two methods, Lagrange equations and D'Alembert's Principle, are presented and methods for numerical solutions are proposed. Initial conditions for inward and outward transfers are derived.
- Publication:
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AIAA, Aerospace Sciences Meeting
- Pub Date:
- January 1985
- Bibcode:
- 1985aiaa.meetR....L
- Keywords:
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- Flexible Spacecraft;
- Flight Characteristics;
- Mass Transfer;
- Tethered Satellites;
- Constraints;
- Dynamic Stability;
- Equations Of Motion;
- Tetherlines;
- Astrodynamics