Email this article Analysis of spacecraft orbital motion around the asteroid Apophis
- Authors: Ivashkin V.V.1,2, Lang A.2
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Affiliations:
- Keldysh Institute of Applied Mathematics
- Bauman Moscow State Technical University
- Issue: Vol 61, No 6 (2016)
- Pages: 288-292
- Section: Mechanics
- URL: https://journals.rcsi.science/1028-3358/article/view/191346
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.1134/S1028335816060057
- ID: 191346
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Abstract
Analysis has shown that it is possible to choose a main spacecraft orbit (~0.5 km radius) and a minisatellite orbit (~1.5 km radius), so that passive motion of the spacecraft around the asteroid remains stable within the context of a given model for a sufficiently long duration of time, i.e., approximately a month for the main spacecraft and several years for the minisatellite, until Apophis approaches the Earth in 2029.
About the authors
V. V. Ivashkin
Keldysh Institute of Applied Mathematics; Bauman Moscow State Technical University
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Email: Ivashkin@Keldysh.ru
Russian Federation, Miusskaya pl. 4, Moscow, 125047; Vtoraya Baumanskaya ul. 5, Moscow, 105005
Anqi Lang
Bauman Moscow State Technical University
Email: Ivashkin@Keldysh.ru
Russian Federation, Vtoraya Baumanskaya ul. 5, Moscow, 105005
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