期刊: JOURNAL OF THE ASTRONAUTICAL SCIENCES, 2021; 68 (3)
High-inclination near-circular orbits are valuable for Europa's global observation. However, the eccentricity drifts due to Jovian third-body gravity ......
期刊: JOURNAL OF THE ASTRONAUTICAL SCIENCES, 2021; 68 (2)
The electrodynamic tether (EDT) is a type of propulsion system that uses the geomagnetic field and ionospheric plasma and has the potential to conduct......
期刊: JOURNAL OF THE ASTRONAUTICAL SCIENCES, ; ()
Thispaper investigates the micro-satellite cluster long-distance gathering control problem including initialization, orbit maintenance and collision a......
期刊: JOURNAL OF THE ASTRONAUTICAL SCIENCES, 2020; 67 (1)
Root locus plots are one of the basic design tools in classical control. They help the designer tune control gains which appear linearly in the coeffi......
期刊: JOURNAL OF THE ASTRONAUTICAL SCIENCES, 2020; 67 (1)
Hypersonic aircrafts are introduced as a platform for cost-efficient access to space. However, challenging problems of control hypersonic aircrafts ex......
期刊: JOURNAL OF THE ASTRONAUTICAL SCIENCES, 2020; 67 (4)
Solving minimum-time low-thrust orbital transfer problems in the three-body problem by indirect methods is an extremely difficult task, which is mainl......
期刊: JOURNAL OF THE ASTRONAUTICAL SCIENCES, 2020; 67 (4)
The typical hovering mission contains three stages: the orbit transfer from the original orbit to the hovering orbit; hovering in the orbit; and the o......
期刊: JOURNAL OF THE ASTRONAUTICAL SCIENCES, 2020; 67 (4)
In recent years there has been an overwhelming demand for the development of the technology of autonomous rendezvous, in which the rapid and accurate ......
期刊: JOURNAL OF THE ASTRONAUTICAL SCIENCES, 2020; 67 (4)
A rapid trajectory optimization method is proposed to solve the fuel-optimal Earth-landing problem of reusable rockets, in which the nonlinear aerodyn......
期刊: JOURNAL OF THE ASTRONAUTICAL SCIENCES, 2019; 66 (4)
To design a free-return orbit for manned lunar mission based on low earth orbit (LEO) rendezvous, an adaptive LEO-phase free-return orbit design metho......
期刊: JOURNAL OF THE ASTRONAUTICAL SCIENCES, 2019; 66 (4)
A methodology for modeling a rotating paraboloidal thin-shell structure attached to a spacecraft body is proposed considering its geometric nonlinear ......
期刊: JOURNAL OF THE ASTRONAUTICAL SCIENCES, 2019; 66 (1)
In this paper, active control of a 6-DOF space robot with flexible panels using singular perturbation method is investigated. Dynamic model of the sys......
期刊: JOURNAL OF THE ASTRONAUTICAL SCIENCES, 2019; 66 (1)
Space debris is increasingly threatening, especially small space debris on the order of centimeters because of the difficulties in detecting and clean......
期刊: JOURNAL OF THE ASTRONAUTICAL SCIENCES, 2019; 66 (3)
In this paper, deployment dynamics of a large-scale flexible solar array system on the ground is investigated. Firstly, the structure of the ground so......