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.


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    Title :

    Impulsive Transfer


    Contributors:
    Cerf, Max (author)

    Published in:

    Publication date :

    2024-12-24


    Size :

    38 pages




    Type of media :

    Article/Chapter (Book)


    Type of material :

    Electronic Resource


    Language :

    English




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