We end our sequence of chapters on dynamics dominated by the small-body gravity in isolation by focusing on the application of control maneuvers to enact hovering about a small body. This technique was applied during the Hayabusa mission to asteroid Itokawa, where the spacecraft maintained its location on the Sun-side of the asteroid by performing occasional thrusting maneuvers. For a small body this is a feasible set of operations as the necessary propellant to maintain a given distance can be quite small. This chapter draws from a number of different analyses of such motion [157, 151, 16, 17, 22] and only presents an introduction to the problem, leaving details to these other papers and for future work.


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    Title :

    Controlled Hovering Motion at an Asteroid


    Additional title:

    Springer Praxis Books (formerly: Springer-Praxis Series)


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    Publication date :

    2012-03-20


    Size :

    12 pages





    Type of media :

    Article/Chapter (Book)


    Type of material :

    Electronic Resource


    Language :

    English




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