Aerobraking maneuvers are currently being considered for use in several space missions. The development of a guidance law for performing simultaneous change of both in-plane and out-of-plane orbital elements with least energy loss is described. The analysis is based on a sixth-order nonlinear point-mass vehicle model with lift, bank angle and drag modulation as the three control variables. The guidance law uses detailed vehicle aerodynamic and the atmosphere models in the feedback loop. The effects of planet oblateness, atmospheric rotation and ambient winds are included in the formulation. The guidance law is in nonlinear feedback form and is simple enough to be implemented on-board an orbit transfer vehicle.


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    Title :

    Aerobrake guidance law synthesis using feedback linearization


    Contributors:

    Conference:

    1991 American Control Conference ; 1991 ; Boston, MA, United States


    Publication date :

    1991-01-01


    Type of media :

    Conference paper


    Type of material :

    No indication


    Language :

    English


    Keywords :


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