A study of a satellite's oscillations in the plane of an elliptical orbit
- Paper ID
IAF-64-10
- author
- company
USSR Academy of Sciences
- country
U.S.S.R.
- year
1964
- abstract
A satellite’s two-dimensional oscillations in an elliptical orbit under the influence ' of gravitational moments are analyzed. Periodic solutions of the equation describing these oscillations are sought. Problems of the number of periodic solutions and their stability are investigated depending on the decisive parameters—the orbit’s eccentricity and the satellite’s inertial characteristic.