The results of repeated processing of magnetic measurements carried out on the Photon-12 satellite (which was in orbit from September 9 to 24, 1999) are described. The processing was performed in order to reconstruct the uncontrolled rotational motion of this satellite. In re-processing, the simplified mathematical model of rotational motion was used. The actual orbit of a satellite (the apogee height is 380 km, the perigee height is 220 km) is replaced by a circular orbit; the expression for the aerodynamic moment acting on a satellite is simplified. The system of differential equations underlying the new model is autonomous and proved to be sufficiently accurate to reconstruct the satellite motion based on magnetic measurements in the case in which the satellite angular velocity was not very low and grew gradually. In the last third of the flight, when the satellite motion became virtually stable and had a sufficiently high angular velocity, this system could be reduced to a generalized-conservative system. Such a reduction makes more definite the set of its solutions suitable for approximate description of the actual motion of a satellite. In some segments of motion, the combining of which covers about 3 days, it was possible to use, for this purpose, the periodic solutions continued from the Lyapunov periodic solutions.


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    Title :

    Periodic Approximation of the Rotational Motion of the Photon-12 Satellite


    Additional title:

    Cosmic Res


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    Published in:

    Cosmic Research ; 60 , 2 ; 107-123


    Publication date :

    2022-04-01


    Size :

    17 pages




    Type of media :

    Article (Journal)


    Type of material :

    Electronic Resource


    Language :

    English






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