Details

Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• CUI, Hai-Ying
• LI, Jun-Feng
• GAO, Yun-Feng

Titel

An Orbital Design Method for Satellite Formation Flying

Ist Teil von

• Journal of mechanical science and technology, 2006-02, Vol.20 (2), p.177-184

Ort / Verlag

Seoul: 대한기계학회

Erscheinungsjahr

2006

Quelle

SpringerLink

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• An orbital design method of the formation initialization based on the relative orbital element method is presented. It firstly constructed the relative motion equation of the satellite formation flying in terms of the leader and followers' orbital elements. Then the equation was simplified when the orbit eccentricity of the leader satellite was small. And according to the satellites' mission, a general design method for the relative trajectory was proposed. The advantage of this method is that one can get a very simple analytical formula of each follower satellite's orbital elements when the orbital eccentricity of the leader satellite is zero. The simulation results show that the method is effective.[PUBLICATION ABSTRACT]