Rendezvous in cislunar halo orbits: Hardware-in-the-loop simulation with coupled orbit and attitude dynamics

V Muralidharan, MR Makhdoomi, KR Barad… - Acta Astronautica, 2023 - Elsevier
Abstract Space missions to Near Rectilinear Halo Orbits (NRHOs) in the Earth–Moon system
are upcoming. A rendezvous technique in cislunar space is proposed in this investigation …

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 …

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 …

Natural periodic orbit-attitude behaviors for rigid bodies in three-body periodic orbits

D Guzzetti, KC Howell - Acta Astronautica, 2017 - Elsevier
Trajectory design increasingly leverages multi-body dynamical structures that are based on
an understanding of various types of orbits in the Circular Restricted Three-Body Problem …

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 …

[HTML][HTML] Circular orbit flip trajectories generated by e-sail

AA Quarta, M Bassetto, G Mengali - Applied Sciences, 2023 - mdpi.com
An Electric Solar Wind Sail (E-sail) is a propellantless propulsion concept that extracts
momentum from the high-speed solar wind stream to generate thrust. This paper …

Hardware-in-the-loop proximity operations in cislunar space

V Muralidharan, MR Makhdoomi, KR Barad… - international …, 2022 - orbilu.uni.lu
Space missions to Near Rectilinear Halo Orbits (NRHOs) in the Earth-Moon system are
upcoming. A rendezvous technique in the cislunar space is proposed in this investigation …

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 …

Coupled orbit-attitude mission design in the circular restricted three-body problem

D Guzzetti - 2016 - search.proquest.com
Trajectory design increasingly leverages multi-body dynamical structures that are based on
an understanding of various types of orbits in the Circular Restricted Three-Body Problem …

Periodic orbit-attitude solutions along planar orbits in a perturbed circular restricted three-body problem for the Earth-Moon system

L Bucci, M Lavagna, D Guzzetti, KC Howell - Acta Astronautica, 2018 - Elsevier
Abstract Interest on Large Space Structures (LSS), orbiting in strategic and possibly long-
term stable locations, is nowadays increasing in the space community. LSS can serve as …