Abstract The Electric Solar Wind Sail (E-sail) is an innovative propellantless propulsion
system conceived by Pekka Janhunen in 2004 for use in interplanetary space. An E-sail …

In this paper, a novel fractional-order fuzzy sliding mode control strategy is developed to
realize the deployment of the tethered satellite system (TSS) with input saturation. The …

With the increase of space debris, space debris removal has gradually become a major
issue to address by worldwide space agencies. Multiple debris removal missions, in which …

The main novelties and capabilities of the second version of the Bare Electrodynamic Tether
Mission Analysis Software (BETsMA v2. 0) are presented. Recent advances on Orbital …

This paper proposes a piecewise two-phased optimal control scheme for fast nanosatellite
deorbit by a short electrodynamic tether. The first phase concerns the open-loop control …

This paper studies the nonlinear dynamics and deorbiting control of an electrodynamic
tether (EDT) system in elliptical orbits. The orbital dynamics of the system under Lorentz …

This paper is concerned with fuzzy control for deployment of space tethered system subject
to tension constraint. The space tethered system under consideration consists of two …

This paper presents a novel adaptive dynamic sliding mode scheme for the deployment of
the tethered satellite system. To overcome the limited inputs of the dynamic model, a new …

Dynamic modeling of tethered spacecraft with the consideration of elasticity of tether is
prone to the numerical instability and error accumulation over long-term numerical …

This paper focuses on the feasibility of constellation maintenance for large-scale satellite
constellations (ie, mega-constellations) by the electrodynamic tethered multi-agent system …