Artificial satellites have to perform maneuvers throughout their operational life, first to reach their nominal orbit, then to stay precisely on it for several years, and finally to evacuate it at their end of life. With high‐thrust engines, the maneuvers can be modeled as velocity impulses, which change one or several orbital parameters. Only the simplest problems, such as Hohmann transfer, have analytical solutions. In many practical situations, the arrival time is constrained. Lambert's problem must then be solved, for which a series of numerical solution methods are available.
Impulsive Transfer
Space Trajectories ; 147-185
2024-12-24
38 pages
Article/Chapter (Book)
Electronic Resource
English
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