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Guidance and Control for Spacecraft Planar Re-phasing via Input Shaping and Differential Drag

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Dipartimento di Matematica Guido Castelnuovo, Università Sapienza Roma

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Sala di Consiglio
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R. Bevilacqua, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY

Maneuvering of low Earth orbiting small spacecraft can be executed without propellant via atmospheric differential drag. This talk introduces analytical guidance solutions for short distance spacecraft re-phasing in circular or low eccentricity orbits, based on input shaping, linearized equations of motion, and use of differential drag. A Lyapunov based on-off controller is proposed to track the guidance in the case of a real flight. Simulation results show good promise for future onboard implementation.