An arbitrarily shaped satellite in the restricted problem of three bodies

It is proposed to place a space station in a short period orbit about the L₄ triangular point in the earth moon system for the purpose of communication and possibly astronomical observations. Within limits of a linear analysis, an exhaustive and general approach to the dynamical problem is presented...

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Main Author: Saxena, Ashok Kumar
Other Authors: Aerospace Engineering
Format: Others
Published: Virginia Tech 2014
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10919/43220
http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/theses/available/etd-06122010-020059/