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An Analytical Method for Controlling Near Circular Orbits

Yang Weilian (Chinese Academy of Space Technology, Beijing 100086)   

  • Published:2003-10-25

Abstract: Most of application satellites are running in near circular orbits, and many of them need to be controlled. In real application, it is unnecessary to use the exact dynamic equation for controlling, because a variety of errors exists. Instead, one can take circular orbit approximation, making it easy to handle then a very simple analytic solution can be derived. In order to prove the effectiveness of simplification all the errors ignored during the process of simplifying are estimated.