Guidance, navigation and control for 6DOF rendezvous in Cislunar multi-body environment

A Colagrossi, V Pesce, L Bucci, F Colombi… - Aerospace Science and …, 2021 - Elsevier
Recent studies highlighted the benefits of a support infrastructure located in Cislunar
environment, which would ease the design of forthcoming space missions with a favorable …

Effects of oblateness of the primaries on natural periodic orbit-attitude behaviour of satellites in three body problem

E Abbasali, A Kosari, M Bakhtiari - Advances in Space Research, 2021 - Elsevier
This study was done to investigate the effect of perturbations of both oblate massive
primaries on the periodic orbit-attitude behavior of satellites at the three-body problem …

Orbit-attitude coupled motion around small bodies: Sun-synchronous orbits with Sun-tracking attitude motion

S Kikuchi, KC Howell, Y Tsuda, J Kawaguchi - Acta Astronautica, 2017 - Elsevier
The motion of a spacecraft in proximity to a small body is significantly perturbed due to its
irregular gravity field and solar radiation pressure. In such a strongly perturbed environment …

Attitude dynamics in the circular restricted three-body problem

D Guzzetti, KC Howell - Astrodynamics, 2018 - Springer
This document reflects the effort of constructing a basis for understanding attitude motion
within a multi-body problem with application to spacecraft flight dynamics. The circular …

Lagrangian dynamics and the discovery of cislunar periodic orbits

AP Wilmer, RA Bettinger - Nonlinear Dynamics, 2023 - Springer
Through the art of applying assumptions which restrict the orbital shape and relative
inclination of celestial bodies such as the Earth and Moon, trajectory prediction of small …

Gravitational orbit–attitude coupling dynamics of a large solar power satellite

Y Liu, S Wu, K Zhang, Z Wu - Aerospace Science and Technology, 2017 - Elsevier
The gravitational coupling of the orbit and attitude motions of a large flexible solar power
satellite (SPS) is studied in this paper. The orbital and attitude dynamical equations of a SPS …

Utilizing the geometric mechanics framework to predict attitude in a full ephemeris model of the Cislunar region

A Anderson, B McCann, D Canales, M Nazari - … in Nonlinear Science and …, 2024 - Elsevier
Predicting the attitude of spacecraft traveling within the Cislunar region is crucial to ensure
the success of future missions planned within that realm of space. To consider the coupled …

ADRC for spacecraft attitude and position synchronization in libration point orbits

C Gao, J Yuan, Y Zhao - Acta Astronautica, 2018 - Elsevier
This paper addresses the problem of spacecraft attitude and position synchronization in
libration point orbits between a leader and a follower. Using dual quaternion, the …

Natural coupled orbit—Attitude periodic motions in the perturbed-CRTBP including radiated primary and oblate secondary

M Bakhtiari, E Abbasali, S Sabzy, A Kosari - Astrodynamics, 2023 - Springer
This study investigated periodic coupled orbit—attitude motions within the perturbed circular
restricted three-body problem (P-CRTBP) concerning the perturbations of a radiated …

Preliminary results on the dynamics of large and flexible space structures in Halo orbits

A Colagrossi, M Lavagna - Acta Astronautica, 2017 - Elsevier
The global exploration roadmap suggests, among other ambitious future space
programmes, a possible manned outpost in lunar vicinity, to support surface operations and …