A study of predicting the rotational motion of a rigid body satellite orbiting the earth under the influence of external torques is presented. The attitude motion in response to external torques is formulated as a perturbation from a nominal torque-free case; the equations of motion are parameterized by the ratio of the orbital and attitude frequencies. The independent variable time is extended into a space of higher dimension by using new fast and slow scales. The theory is applied for predicting the attitude dynamics of an asymmetric rigid-body satellite.


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    Title :

    Nonlinear attitude dynamics of satellites


    Contributors:
    Ramnath, R. V. (author) / Tao, Y.-C. (author)

    Conference:

    New approaches to nonlinear problems in dynamics ; 1979 ; Pacific Grove, CA


    Publication date :

    1980-01-01


    Type of media :

    Miscellaneous


    Type of material :

    No indication


    Language :

    English




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