Keeping a spacecraft on a vertical circular orbit around an Earth-Moon lagrange point

  • Mohammed Ghazy*
  • , Brett Newman
  • *Corresponding author for this work

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Abstract

A station keeping strategy for a spacecraft orbiting a collinear equilibrium point in the Earth-Moon system is introduced. A nominal circular solution which is derived from the Jacobi integral equation, employing elliptic integral theory, is used in a plane perpendicular to the line joining the two primaries. Thrust control inputs, which are found to be nonlinear functions of time, are used to negate the instability of the nominal orbit. Orbit parameters are chosen so that the cost of maintaining the nominal orbit is minimized. Analytical relationships for control requirements are developed.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationAstrodynamics 2009 - Advances in the Astronautical Sciences
Subtitle of host publicationProceedings of the AAS/AIAA Astrodynamics Specialist Conference
Pages693-712
Number of pages20
StatePublished - 2010
Externally publishedYes

Publication series

NameAdvances in the Astronautical Sciences
Volume135
ISSN (Print)0065-3438

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Aerospace Engineering
  • Space and Planetary Science

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