PLANING FOR ON-ORBIT SERVICING OF VARIOUS SATELLITE SYSTEMS

The problem of planning the circumnavigation of space objects requiring servicing is considered. It is assumed that system of base stations for servicing the given array of the satellites on different LEO orbits has been deployed. For a fixed time it is needed to flyby each satellite which requires servicing. The servicing is conducted using the detachable modules (DM) from the base stations. Basing on the RAAN deviation portrait for all serviceable satellites and base stations it is defined which DM should transfer to the vicinity of which satellite in order to have the lowest DM velocity budget.

space servicing, orbit transfers, low orbits, velocity budget minimization