Abstract We obtained an on-off control law for two spacecraft (SC) rocket engines creating the angular acceleration in the opposite directions considering that SC is controlled by the rocket engines with an exponential increase of thrust at starting and decrease at shutdown. This control law provides the change-over of SC from the initial angular position to the final one in the scheduled time. A special trajectory consisting of eight typical segments is proposed to identify the angular acceleration and delay of its formation in the rocket engines. Both problems are solved by the method of analytical construction of composite trajectories for the angular turn from the typical segments on which the differential equations of angular motion have analytical solutions. The results are applicable for the development of promising space interceptors and design of onboard control systems.


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    Title :

    Control of spacecraft turns in scheduled time using rocket engines


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    Publication date :

    2013-01-01


    Size :

    8 pages




    Type of media :

    Article (Journal)


    Type of material :

    Electronic Resource


    Language :

    English




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