Chaos in a Spacecraft Attitude Maneuver Due to Time-Periodic Perturbations

DOI10.1115/1.2788896zbMath0874.70020OpenAlexW1995728419MaRDI QIDQ4339774

Daniel C. Kammer, Ian Dobson, G. L. Gray

Publication date: 16 June 1997

Published in: Journal of Applied Mechanics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1115/1.2788896

zbMATH Keywords

Melnikov's methodSmale horseshoessmall dampingequations of motionsanalytical criterion for chaotic motiondesign of artificial satellitesmajor axis spinminor axis spintorque-free rigid body

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Bifurcations and instability for nonlinear problems in mechanics (70K50) Strange attractors, chaotic dynamics of systems with hyperbolic behavior (37D45) Orbital mechanics (70M20)

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