Reconfiguration and Recovery of Formation Flying Spacecraft in Eccentric Orbits

The problem of reference trajectory reconfiguration and long-term uncontrolled recovery of a formation of spacecraft is considered in an eccentric orbit under the influence of the J2 perturbation. Reference trajectories considered are the Projected Circular Orbit, Along-Track Orbit, and their eccent...

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Main Author: Roscoe, Christopher William Thomas
Other Authors: Damaren, Christopher John
Language:en_ca
Published: 2009
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1807/17708