Stability and control of transversal oscillations of a tethered satellite system (Q1893063)

This paper studies the effects of longitudinal control force on the stability of motion under internal resonance condition. The control force is assumed to depend on transversal displacements of the string end. For the planar transversal oscillations perturbed out of the orbit plane, the evolution of the motion for stable and unstable solutions is studied and compared with the results obtained for the uncontrolled case.