Orbital Motion in Strongly Perturbed Environments: Applications to Asteroid, Comet and Planetary Satellite Orbiters

✍ Scribed by Daniel J. Scheeres (auth.)

Publisher: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
Year: 2012
Tongue: English
Leaves: 396
Series: Springer Praxis Books
Edition: 1
Category: Library

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✦ Synopsis

The proposed book will provide a detailed, technical introduction to the analysis of orbital motion in strongly perturbed environments, focusing on motion about small Solar System bodies, such as comets and asteroids. The author shows why such small bodies are of interest and why they can be used as a motivation for the general analysis of orbital mechanics. He shows how it is possible to model the small body environment, including specialised cases such as those of binary asteroids, comets and ‘rubble piles’, and how the fundamental equations of motion are derived. The properties of the various solutions to the equations of motion are described and the methods of analysis and their application are discussed. Both ballistic motion and powered motion on and about small bodies are considered and case studies for different small body missions are presented. The author concludes his comprehensive treatment with a discussion of the mechanics of multi-body small body systems and a review of advanced topics and future applications.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages I-XVii
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Introduction and Background....Pages 3-22
Modeling Small Body Environments....Pages 23-59
Front Matter....Pages 61-61
Non-Perturbed Solutions....Pages 63-86
Equations of Motion for a Small Body Orbiter....Pages 87-103
Properties of Solution....Pages 105-141
Solution and Characterization Methods....Pages 143-169
Front Matter....Pages 171-173
Uniformly Rotating Bodies: Asteroid 433 Eros....Pages 175-200
Complex Rotators: Asteroid 4179 Toutatis....Pages 201-214
Binary Asteroids: 1999 KW4....Pages 215-229
The Surface Environment on Asteroids....Pages 231-242
Controlled Hovering Motion at an Asteroid....Pages 243-254
Solar Radiation Pressure: Exact Analysis....Pages 255-275
Solar Radiation Pressure: Averaged Analysis....Pages 277-288
Small Bodies: Asteroid 25143 Itokawa....Pages 289-300
Comet Outgassing....Pages 301-304
Planetary Satellites: Exact Analysis....Pages 305-326
Planetary Satellites: Averaged Analysis....Pages 327-342
Small Planetary Satellites: Deimos....Pages 343-354
Back Matter....Pages 355-390

✦ Subjects

Aerospace Technology and Astronautics; Extraterrestrial Physics, Space Sciences; Geophysics/Geodesy; Vibration, Dynamical Systems, Control; Mechanics; Automotive Engineering

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