Nonlinearity-induced spacecraft tumbling
Conference
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OSTI ID:481971
- Pennsylvania State Univ., University Park, PA (United States)
An existing tumbling criterion for the dumbbell satellite in planar librations is reexamined and modified to reflect a recently identified tumbling mode associated with the horizontal attitude orientation. It is shown that for any initial attitude there exists a critical angular rate below which the motion is oscillatory and harmonic and beyond which a continuous tumbling will ensue. If the angular rate is at the critical value the spacecraft drifts towards the horizontal attitude from which a spontaneous periodic tumbling occurs.
- OSTI ID:
- 481971
- Report Number(s):
- CONF-960503--
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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