Chinese Space Science and Technology

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Analytic Solution of the Nonlinear Equation of Relative Motion with Small Constant Thrust

Zhu Renzhang (Beijing University of Astronautics and Aeronautics,Beijing 100083) Li Yili (Chinese Academy of Space Technology,Beijing 100081)   

  • Online:2000-04-25

Abstract: Accurate equations of the relative motion are discussed,and analytic solutions of the linear equations are derived,based on analytic solutions of the linear equations,where the target vehicle moves on an elliptic orbit and the chaser vehicle is acted by small constant thrust.