On the validity of recent predictions for tethers on elliptical orbits

Advances in the Astronautical Sciences

Volumn 108 II, Issue , 2001, Pages 1831-1838

  Ziegler, Spencer W ^a   Cartmell, Matthew P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; DYNAMICS; EQUATIONS OF MOTION; GRAVITATION; KINETIC ENERGY; ORBITS; POTENTIAL ENERGY; RUNGE KUTTA METHODS; SPACE FLIGHT; TETHERLINES; VECTORS; VELOCITY;

ELLIPTICAL ORBITS; MAXIMUM VELOCITY INCREMENT; PAYLOAD; TETHER NONLINEAR ATTITUDE DYNAMICS;

SPACECRAFT;

EID: 0035735235     PISSN: 10816003     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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6. Chaos in the pitch equation of motion for the gravity-gradient satellite
7. Nonlinear dynamics of the tethered subsatellite system in the station keeping phase