Abstract
Periodic motion is analyzed on nonlinear attitude motion of a double compound-tether satellite on elliptic orbits. The compound-tether satellite consists of a mother satellite and two subsatellites connected through tether. An elliptic motion is obtained for the attitude motion when the eccentricity is small and the motion is linear. The motion turns to chaotic motion under the influence of the orbit eccentricity when the eccentricity increases to a certain value. The nonlinear attitude motion is studied through the method of nonlinear analysis including the Poincare map and the Lyapunov exponent. The initial condition for the periodic solution of the nonlinear motion is analyzed by an analytical method.
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