Dynamics of a tethered satellite with variable mass

DOI10.3934/dcdss.2015.8.1035zbMath1397.70007MaRDI QIDQ258559

Faris Alzahrani, Elbaz I. Abouelmagd, Aatef Hobiny, Juan Luis García Guirao

Publication date: 10 March 2016

Published in: Discrete and Continuous Dynamical Systems. Series S (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.3934/dcdss.2015.8.1035

zbMATH Keywords

variable mass; dumbbell satellite; tethered satellite; Beletsky's equation; Meshcherskii's transformation

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

70P05: Variable mass, rockets

37C27: Periodic orbits of vector fields and flows

70E20: Perturbation methods for rigid body dynamics

70E40: Integrable cases of motion in rigid body dynamics

70E17: Motion of a rigid body with a fixed point

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