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| M. K. Nabiullin, "Stability of equilibrium states of a tether orbital space system," Mech. Solids. 39 (4), 5-14 (2004) |
| Year |
2004 |
Volume |
39 |
Number |
4 |
Pages |
5-14 |
| Title |
Stability of equilibrium states of a tether orbital space system |
| Author(s) |
M. K. Nabiullin (Irkutsk) |
| Abstract |
The problem of stabilization of equilibrium of a tether space orbital system is considered. The system consists of a carrier body with flywheels and a probe satellite attached to the carrier body by means of a long heavy tether. The satellite is treated as a point mass and the tether as a flexible thread that does not resist bending and torsion. The center of mass of the carrier body with flywheels is assumed to move in a prescribed circular Keplerian orbit in the Newtonian central field. Particular solutions of nonlinear differential equations with ordinary and partial derivatives that correspond to the equilibriums of the tether orbital system in the orbital reference frame are found. The principal central axes of the system in the equilibriums are collinear to the axes of the orbital reference frame. The tether with the satellite can be arranged along the radius of the orbit and point toward or away from the attraction center or along the tangent to the orbit. Sufficient conditions for stability of these equilibriums are established and analyzed on the basis of the Lyapunov functional method.
Issues of nonlinear dynamics, stability, libration oscillations, and control of various tether systems in a circular orbit have been studied by numerous authors [1-8]. These studies take into account the aerodynamic forces, magnetic forces, and thrust forces applied to the carrier body. The stability of the tether system equilibriums were studied in [9-11]. The results of the present paper are compared with the familiar ones. |
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04 July 2001 |
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