Orbital Design and Control for Jupiter-Observation Spacecraft
This paper investigates the evolution of orbits around Jupiter and designs a sun-synchronous repeating ground track orbit. In the dynamical models, the leading terms of the Jupiter’s oblateness are <i>J</i><sub>2</sub> and <i>J</i><sub>4</sub> terms. A...
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| description | This paper investigates the evolution of orbits around Jupiter and designs a sun-synchronous repeating ground track orbit. In the dynamical models, the leading terms of the Jupiter’s oblateness are <i>J</i><sub>2</sub> and <i>J</i><sub>4</sub> terms. A reasonable range of ground track repetition parameter <i>Q</i> is given and the best observation orbit elements are selected. Meanwhile, the disturbing function acting on the navigation spacecraft is the atmospheric drag and the third body. The law of altitude decay of the spacecraft’s semimajor orbit axis caused by the atmospheric drag is studied, and the inclination perturbation caused by the sun’s gravity is analyzed. This paper designs a semimajor axis compensation strategy to maintain the orbit’s repeatability and proposes an initial inclination prebiased strategy to limit the local time at the descending node in a permitted range. In particular, these two methods are combined in the context of sun-synchronous repeating ground track orbit for better observation of the surface of Jupiter. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-ae0803f2bedd4d5c96799ab0fa24272e2023-11-22T17:03:31ZengMDPI AGAerospace2226-43102021-10-0181028210.3390/aerospace8100282Orbital Design and Control for Jupiter-Observation SpacecraftChunsheng Jiang0Yongjie Liu1Yu Jiang2Hengnian Li3State Key Laboratory of Astronautic Dynamics, Xi’an Satellite Control Center, Xi’an 710043, ChinaState Key Laboratory of Astronautic Dynamics, Xi’an Satellite Control Center, Xi’an 710043, ChinaState Key Laboratory of Astronautic Dynamics, Xi’an Satellite Control Center, Xi’an 710043, ChinaState Key Laboratory of Astronautic Dynamics, Xi’an Satellite Control Center, Xi’an 710043, ChinaThis paper investigates the evolution of orbits around Jupiter and designs a sun-synchronous repeating ground track orbit. In the dynamical models, the leading terms of the Jupiter’s oblateness are <i>J</i><sub>2</sub> and <i>J</i><sub>4</sub> terms. A reasonable range of ground track repetition parameter <i>Q</i> is given and the best observation orbit elements are selected. Meanwhile, the disturbing function acting on the navigation spacecraft is the atmospheric drag and the third body. The law of altitude decay of the spacecraft’s semimajor orbit axis caused by the atmospheric drag is studied, and the inclination perturbation caused by the sun’s gravity is analyzed. This paper designs a semimajor axis compensation strategy to maintain the orbit’s repeatability and proposes an initial inclination prebiased strategy to limit the local time at the descending node in a permitted range. In particular, these two methods are combined in the context of sun-synchronous repeating ground track orbit for better observation of the surface of Jupiter.https://www.mdpi.com/2226-4310/8/10/282sun-synchronous orbitrepeating ground track orbitinclination perturbationsemimajor axis compensation strategyinitial inclination prebiased strategy |
| spellingShingle | Chunsheng Jiang Yongjie Liu Yu Jiang Hengnian Li Orbital Design and Control for Jupiter-Observation Spacecraft Aerospace sun-synchronous orbit repeating ground track orbit inclination perturbation semimajor axis compensation strategy initial inclination prebiased strategy |
| title | Orbital Design and Control for Jupiter-Observation Spacecraft |
| title_full | Orbital Design and Control for Jupiter-Observation Spacecraft |
| title_fullStr | Orbital Design and Control for Jupiter-Observation Spacecraft |
| title_full_unstemmed | Orbital Design and Control for Jupiter-Observation Spacecraft |
| title_short | Orbital Design and Control for Jupiter-Observation Spacecraft |
| title_sort | orbital design and control for jupiter observation spacecraft |
| topic | sun-synchronous orbit repeating ground track orbit inclination perturbation semimajor axis compensation strategy initial inclination prebiased strategy |
| url | https://www.mdpi.com/2226-4310/8/10/282 |
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