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%X The station acquisition and subsequently c for satellites carrying applicat payloads for communications or remote sensing are of great importance. For remote sensing missions with precise applications, the immediate post launch maneuver design task is to achieve operational orbit with specified reference ground track pattern. The maneuvers are to be designed to ensure ground track pattern phasing with minimum number of maneuvers. The station acquisition of geo-stationary satellite consists of bringing it from the initial geo-stationary transfer orbit into station on the geo-stationary orbit. There are several existing operational methods to solve problem concerning the optimal space maneuvers. Typically these methods are solved by one of following two methods. In the so-called indirect method necessary conditions of optimality derived using the calculus of variations and generally result in a two-point boundary value problem. Most of these approaches are difficult to solve and are subject to numerical sensitivity problems. The other hand, direct methods like optimization problems are frequently used for operation purposes. Here an attempt has been made to explore the feasibility of applying the homot continuation method for optimal space maneuvers.
%@secondarydate 20021004
%E Prado, Antonio Fernando Bertachini de Almeida,
%T Study of a homotopy continuation method for station keeping maneuvers
%S Advances in Space Dynamics
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%K ENGENHARIA E TECNOLOGIA ESPACIAL, station keeping, maneuvers.
%B Advances in Space Dynamics
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%C São José dos Campos
%@secondarykey INPE-9217-PRE/4888
%F 10131
%2 sid.inpe.br/iris@1905/2005/08.03.22.17.40
%P 204-212
%4 sid.inpe.br/iris@1905/2005/08.03.22.17
%D 2000
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%A Prasad, Polamraju Rajendra,
%A Kuga, Hélio Koiti,
%@area ETES