As various types of perturbations tend to drive a geostationary satellite away from its prescribed position, occasional orbit corrections have to be carried out by means of a suitable propulsion system. In future geostationary missions, low thrust electric propulsion is likely to be applied for station keeping because of considerable mass savings. In this paper a station keeping strategy for electric propulsion systems is developed. Both the unconstrained case and the case where thrust operation constraints are present are considered and tested by computer simulation of a realistic example.


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    Title :

    Station keeping of geostationary satellites by electric propulsion


    Contributors:

    Conference:

    Walter-Hohmann Symp. uber Raumflugmech., ; 1980 ; Cologne, Germany


    Publication date :

    1985-04-01


    Type of media :

    Report


    Type of material :

    No indication


    Language :

    English





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