Engineering Optimization Method of Orbit Transfer Strategy for All-electric Propulsion Satellites

Abstract

Nowadays, all-electric propulsion satellites have shown very good performance in missions such as geostationary communication and deep space exploration, and have been widely concerned by major aerospace companies around the world. Because the excellent performance of the electric thruster can enable the satellite to carry more payloads. While the use of electric thrusters for orbit transfer saves fuel consumption significantly, it also leads to the problem of long orbit transfer time. To solve this problem, a simplified low-thrust orbit transfer strategy is designed, which is simple in form, easy to store, while having few parameters to be optimized. In order to optimize the simplified transfer strategy, a bidirectional stochastic gradient descent method suitable for on-board calculation is proposed, with a simple algorithm process and small computation. It can be known from actual calculations that after 600 times of orbit extrapolation, it can converge to the optimal solution. Finally, we can draw a conclusion that the algorithm is feasible and effective by numerical simulation.