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- Title
Optimal Transitions of a Spacecraft with an Energy Storage and a Low-Power Thruster.
- Authors
Tkachenko, Ya. V.
- Abstract
A solution is found to the problem on optimal transitions of a spacecraft with a low-power thruster and an energy storage between two close noncoplanar circular orbits. The maximum payload is chosen to be the optimality criterion. The optimal time-dependences of controls and optimal relationships among the mass parameters of the propulsion system are presented. Ranges of these parameters are found within which an energy storage would be appropriate for use. The results are compared with those for a constant-power thruster. The effect of the radial increment and the increment in the orbit inclination angle on the efficiency of the energy storage is studied
- Subjects
SPACE vehicles; FORCE &; energy; POWER (Mechanics); PULSED power systems; ORBITAL mechanics
- Publication
International Applied Mechanics, 2003, Vol 39, Issue 1, p116
- ISSN
1063-7095
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1023/A:1023632620416