Numerical methods have proven to be reliable tools in generating long-term bounded relative trajectories in nontrivial dynamical environments. Yet, none of the existing procedures have a systematic approach to come up with all of the bounded relative trajectories associated with a variety of satellites in Earth orbit. In this paper, such a systematic procedure is developed based on the assumption that any trajectory, except at critical inclinations, is either periodic or quasi periodic in the four-dimensional Routh reduced system describing the motion of a mass particle about an axisymmetric body. This allows key design parameters to be identified, such as the nodal period and the node drift per nodal period, which are later used to constrain a differential corrector scheme looking for families of quasi-periodic invariant tori that yield bounded relative motion in the Earth-centered inertial frame. Numerical simulations show that the computed solutions are good candidates for cluster flight missions at a large range of altitude and inclination values. Presented as Paper 2017-0242 at the 27th AAS/AIAA Space Flight Mechanics Meeting, San Antonio, TX, 5-9 February 2017


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    Title :

    Design of Bounded Relative Trajectories in the Earth Zonal Problem


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    Publication date :

    2017




    Type of media :

    Article (Journal)


    Type of material :

    Print


    Language :

    English



    Classification :

    BKL:    55.54 Flugführung
    Local classification TIB:    770/7040




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