Chinese Space Science and Technology ›› 2016, Vol. 36 ›› Issue (5): 81-.doi: 10.16708/j.cnki.1000-758X.2016.0061

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Spacecraftmultiplepulsehoveringmethodbasedonstatetransitionmatrix

CHENG  Bo, YUAN  Jian-Ping, MA  Wei-Hua   

  1. 1SchoolofAstronautics,NorthwesternPolytechnicalUniversity,Xi′an710072,China
    2BeijingInstituteofAstronauticalSystemsEngineering,Beijing100076,China
    3NationalKeyLaboratoryofAerospaceFlightDynamics,Xi′an710072,China
  • Received:2016-03-11 Revised:2016-06-19 Published:2016-10-25 Online:2016-08-22

Abstract: Basedonastatetransitionmatrix,amethodforspacecraftmultiplepulsehoveringwaspresented.Therelativemotiondynamicsmodelandthestatetransitionmatrixwereintroducedtodescribetherelativemotionoftwospacecraftincircular,ellipticalandhyperbolicreferenceorbits.Amethodofachievingtheorbittransfervelocityincrementforhoveringwasdeducedusingthestatetransitionmatrix.Thenumericalsimulationshowsthattheproposedmethodcanachievespacecraftrelativehoveringeffectively.Withtheincreasingofimpulsenumber,theprecisionofrelativehoveringispromoted.Moreover,theprecisionofrelativehoveringisinfluencedbytheeccentricityofreferenceorbit.

Key words: spacecraft, relativemotion, statetransitionmatrix, multiplepulse, hovering