
Rigid Body Dynamics for Space Applications
Description
Key Features
- Provides a complete treatise of modeling attitude for a range of novel and modern attitude control problems of spaceflight mechanics
- Features chapters on the application of rigid body dynamics to atmospheric re-entries, tethered assisted re-entry, and tethered space debris removal
- Shows relatively simple ways of constructing mathematical models and analytical solutions describing the behavior of very complex material systems
- Uses modern methods of regular and chaotic dynamics to obtain results
Readership
Researchers and engineers working on spacecraft attitude dynamics and space debris removal; Graduate students studying astrodynamics or space engineering
Table of Contents
Chapter 1: Mathematical Mechanical Preliminaries
- Abstract
- 1.1 Mathematics
- 1.2 Rigid Body Kinematic
- 1.3 Rigid Body Dynamics
- 1.4 Chaotic Motion
Chapter 2: Reentry Attitude Dynamics
- Abstract
- 2.1 Introduction
- 2.2 Aerodynamics of Reentry Vehicles
- 2.3 The Equations of Motion
- 2.4 Analytical Solutions of the Undisturbed Equation for Sinusoidal Aerodynamic Moment
- 2.5 Analytical Solutions of the Undisturbed Equation for Biharmonical Aerodynamic Moment
- 2.6 Quasistatic Solutions for the Disturbed Equation of Motion
- 2.7 Adiabatic Invariants and the Approximate Solution for the Disturbed Motion
- 2.8 Bifurcation and Ways of Its Elimination at the Descent of Spacecraft in the Rarefied Atmosphere
- 2.9 Chaotic Attitude Motion of Reentry Vehicle With an Internal Moving Mass
- 2.10 Chaotic Behavior of Bodies in a Resistant Medium
- 2.11 Chaotic Motion of a Reentry Capsule During Descent into the Atmosphere
Chapter 3: Dynamics and Control of Coaxial Satellite Gyrostats
- Abstract
- 3.1 Introduction
- 3.2 Attitude Motion Equations
- 3.3 Integrable Cases in the Dynamics of Coaxial Gyrostats
- 3.4 The Exact Analytical Solutions
- 3.5 Dynamics and Chaos Control of the Gyrostats
- 3.6 Dynamics and Control of Dual-Spin Gyrostat Spacecraft With Changing Structure
- 3.7 Adiabatic Invariants in the Dynamics of Axial Gyrostats
Chapter 4: Deployment, Dynamics, and Control of a Tether-Assisted Return Mission of a Reentry Capsule
- Abstract
- 4.1 Introduction
- 4.2 Mathematical Model of a Satellite With a Tethered Payload
- 4.3 Analytical Solution in the Case of a Slow Changing of the Parameters
- 4.4 Oscillations of the Satellite With a Vertical Elastic Tether
- 4.5 Oscillations in the Case of an Elliptic Orbit
- 4.6 Swing Principle for Deployment of a Tether-Assisted Return Mission of a Reentry Capsule
- 4.7 Tether-Assisted Return Mission From an Elliptical Orbit Taking Into Account Atmospheric Stage of Reentry
Chapter 5: Removal of Large Space Debris by a Tether Tow
- Abstract
- 5.1 Introduction
- 5.2 Dynamics of Orbital Debris Connected to Spacecraft by a Tether in a Free Space
- 5.3 Dynamics of Large Orbital Debris Removal Using Tethered Space Tug in the Earth's Gravitational Field
- 5.4 Behavior of Tethered Debris With Flexible Appendages
- 5.5 Dynamics, Analytical Solutions and Choice of Parameters for Towed Space Debris With Flexible Appendages
- 5.6 The Motion of Tethered Tug-Debris System With Fuel Residuals
- 5.7 Dynamics of Towed Large Space Debris Taking Into Account Atmospheric Disturbance
- 5.8 Chaos Behavior of Space Debris During Tethered Tow
Chapter 6: Original Tasks of Space Mechanics
- Abstract
- 6.1 Introduction
- 6.2 Gravitational Stabilization of the Satellite With a Moving Mass
- 6.3 The Dynamics of the Spacecraft of Variable Composition
- 6.4 Restoration of Attitude Motion of Satellite Using Small Numbers of Telemetry Measurements
Product details
- No. of pages: 420
- Language: English
- Copyright: © Butterworth-Heinemann 2017
- Published: April 22, 2017
- Imprint: Butterworth-Heinemann
- eBook ISBN: 9780081018743
- Paperback ISBN: 9780128110942
About the Author
Vladimir Aslanov
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