Citation
Peláez Álvarez, Jesús and Bombardelli, Claudio and Lara, M. and Lucas, Fernando R. and Sanjurjo Rivo, Manuel and Curreli, D. and Lorenzini, Enrico C. and Scheeres, D.
(2012).
Dynamic stabilization of L2 periodic orbits using attitude-orbit coupling effects.
"Journal of Aerospace Engineering", v. 4
(n. 1);
pp. 73-81.
ISSN 0893-1321.
Abstract
Numerical explorations show how the known periodic solutions of the Hill problem are modified in the case of the attitude-orbit coupling that may occur for large satellite structures. We focus on the case in which the elongation is the dominant satellite?s characteristic and find that a rotating structure may remain with its largest dimension in a plane parallel to the plane of the primaries. In this case, the effect produced by the non-negligible physical dimension is dynamically equivalent to the perturbation produced by an oblate central body on a masspoint satellite. Based on this, it is demonstrated that the attitude-orbital coupling of a long enough body may change the dynamical characteristics of a periodic orbit about the collinear Lagrangian points.