Gyrostat dynamics on a circular orbit

• Author(s): Santos, Luís Filipe Ferreira Marques
• Date: 2009
• Persistent ID: http://hdl.handle.net/10400.6/2045
• Origin: uBibliorum
• Subject(s): Veículo espacial; Dinâmica girostática
• Document Type: Master thesis
• Language: English
• Advisor(s): Silva, André Resende Rodrigues da
• Contributor(s): uBibliorum

Description

This work deals with a general gyrostat moving along a circular orbit in a central Newtonian force field. The main purpose is to determine all equilibria positions for our spacecraft in the case when internal angular momentum of the gyrostat satellite is collinear to its principal axis of inertia, when the gyrostatic moment vector lies in one of the satellite’s principal central plane of inertia and for a general position where the gyrostatic moment doesn’t coincide with any of the principal axis of inertia.