This investigation deals with the stability, in a circular orbit, of a flexible space station consisting of two inertially identical rigid end bodies connected together by an elastic structure. The earth-pointing motion and the rotation with arbitrary initial angular velocity perpendicular to the orbital plane are studied by using the multiple-scales technique. The first-order approximate analytical solution and the conditions of stability are obtained.


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    Title :

    Stability of an elastically connected two-body space station by the perturbation method


    Contributors:
    Ge, Z-M (author) / Ku, S-C (author)


    Publication date :

    1997-03-01


    Size :

    16 pages




    Type of media :

    Article (Journal)


    Type of material :

    Electronic Resource


    Language :

    English