An optimal packing problem for satellites in geosynchronous orbit

DOI10.1016/0167-6377(83)90055-XzbMath0516.70029MaRDI QIDQ1052837

Dennis Fielder, Victor R. Bond, Bruce R. Feiring

Publication date: 1983

Published in: Operations Research Letters (Search for Journal in Brave)

zbMATH Keywords

perturbationsoptimal packinggeostationary orbitout-of-plane motion3 to 4 degree longitude separationfigure-eight and halo orbitsgeosynchronous satellite orbitsin-plane motionoblateness and ellipticity termsstable points at ends of minor axisTaylor series expansion of force functionunstable points at ends of major axis

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Control of mechanical systems (70Q05) Astronomy and astrophysics (85A99) Celestial mechanics (70F15) Orbital mechanics (70M20) Optimality conditions for problems involving ordinary differential equations (49K15)

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