supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (10832004 and 10672084).
Based on the trajectory design of a mission to Saturn, this paper discusses four different trajectories in various swingby cases. We assume a single impulse to be applied in each case when the spacecraft approaches a ...
Project supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (No.10672084);the Research Fund for the Doctoral Program of Higher Education (No.20060003097)
A robust attitude tracking control scheme for spacecraft formation flying is presented. The leader spacecraft with a rapid mobile antenna and a camera is modeled. While the camera is tracking the ground target, the an...
Project supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(No.10672084);the Specialized Research Fund for Doctoral Program of Higher Education(No.20060003097)
Formation flying is a novel concept of distributing the functionality of large spacecraft among several smaller, less expensive, cooperative satellites. Some applications require that a controllable satellite keeps re...
Project supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Nos.10672084 and 10672084)
The paper investigates the relative motion around the planetary displaced orbit. Several kinds of displaced orbits for geocentric and martian cases were discussed. First, the relative motion was linearized around the ...