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Yu.N. Chelnokov, "Quaternionic Regular Equations of the Two-Body Problem and the Problem of the Motion of a Satellite in the Gravitational Field of the Earth in Kustaanheim–Stiefel Variables and Modified Four-Dimensional Variables: Dynamics of Relative Motion," Mech. Solids. 59 (2), 643-663 (2024)
Year 2024 Volume 59 Number 2 Pages 643-663
DOI 10.1134/S002565442360099X
Title Quaternionic Regular Equations of the Two-Body Problem and the Problem of the Motion of a Satellite in the Gravitational Field of the Earth in Kustaanheim–Stiefel Variables and Modified Four-Dimensional Variables: Dynamics of Relative Motion
Author(s) Yu.N. Chelnokov (Institute for Precision Mechanics and Control Problems of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Saratov, 410028 Russia, ChelnokovYuN@gmail.com)
Abstract The article develops the quaternion regularization of differential equations (DE) of the relative perturbed motion of the body under study, which we previously proposed within the framework of the perturbed spatial problem of two bodies: the equations of motion of the center of mass of this body in a coordinate system rotating in an inertial coordinate system according to an arbitrarily given law, and also develops a quaternion DE regularization of the motion of the body under study relative to the coordinate system associated with the Earth. New quaternion DEs of the perturbed motion of an artificial Earth satellite relative to the coordinate system associated with the Earth are proposed. These equations have (in modern times) the form of DE of the relative motion of the perturbed four-dimensional oscillator in the Kustaanheimo–Stiefel variables or in our proposed modified four-dimensional variables, supplemented by DE for the energy of the satellite motion and time. These equations for the perturbed relative motion of the satellite take into account the zonal, tesseral and sectorial harmonics of the Earth’s gravitational field. The proposed equations, in contrast to classical equations, are regular (do not contain special points such as singularity (division by zero)) for the relative motion of a satellite in the Newtonian gravitational field of the Earth. The equations are convenient for applying methods of nonlinear mechanics and high-precision numerical calculations when studying the orbital motion of a satellite relative to the Earth and predicting its motion.
Keywords perturbed spatial two-body problem, artificial Earth satellite, quaternion regularization, regular quaternion equations, absolute and relative motion, Kustaanheimo-Stiefel variables, modified four-dimensional variables, energy of motion, zonal, tesseral and sectorial harmonics of the Earth’s gravitational field
Received 11 April 2023Revised 09 June 2023Accepted 17 June 2023
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