The management of space debris is increasingly crucial for ensuring the safety of space missions by mitigating collision risks. Most proposed debris management systems involve the capture and deorbiting of debris. However, it is also essential to eliminate any residual rotation and nutation of the debris to perform capture without accidents. The current work examines the effectiveness of thruster plume impingement for despinning space debris. A proof-of-concept study of plume impingement dynamics is conducted on a rectangular prism target using single- and multiple-nozzle arrangements for different target offsets and orientations. The three-dimensional simulation is carried out using the open-source Direct Simulation Monte Carlo code SPARTA. Staging and dynamic grid adaptation techniques are incorporated to obtain high-resolution results for the multiscale problem. It is observed that the plume–plume interaction in the multinozzle configuration leads to the beneficial formation of a relatively narrow beam of flow interacting with the target; that is, a multinozzle plume exerts a more concentrated directed force, which imparts greater countertorque across a broader spectrum of target orientations than a single-nozzle plume.


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    Titel :

    Single- and Multinozzle Plume Impingement to Detumble Space Debris


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    Erscheinungsdatum :

    01.05.2025




    Medientyp :

    Aufsatz (Zeitschrift)


    Format :

    Elektronische Ressource


    Sprache :

    Englisch




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