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- Title
Circular Orbit Target Capture Using Space Tether-Net System.
- Authors
Guang Zhai; Jing-rui Zhang; Zhang Yao
- Abstract
The space tether-net system for on-orbit capture is proposed in this paper. In order to research the dynamic behaviors during system deployment, both free and nonfree deployment dynamics in circular orbit are developed; the system motion with respect to Local Vertical and Local Horizontal frame is also researched with analysis and simulation. The results show that in the case of free deployment, the capture net follows curve trajectories due to the relative orbit dynamic perturbation, and the initial deployment velocities are planned by state transformation equations for static and floating target captures; in the case of non-free deployment, the system undergoes an altitude libration along the Local Vertical, and the analytical solutions that describe the attitude libration are obtained by using variable separation and integration. Finally, the dynamics of postdeployment systemis also provedmarginally stable if the critical initial conditions are satisfied.
- Subjects
ORBITAL assembly of space vehicles; TRAJECTORIES (Mechanics); DYNAMICAL systems; LIBRATION; COMPUTER simulation
- Publication
Mathematical Problems in Engineering, 2013, p1
- ISSN
1024-123X
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1155/2013/601482