Reachable domain for satellite with two kinds of thrust

Abstract

The paper analyzes and simulates the reachable domain for satellite with both a single fixed-magnitude coplanar impulse and coplanar continuous thrust, and the corresponding method of determining reachable domain for each case is presented. In both cases, simulations are done for the reachable domain, and the descriptions of corresponding envelopes are presented. For the former case, a method combined numerical analysis with geometric analysis is presented to study the reachable domain, the simulation results show preliminarily that our method is in agreement with the method in Xue et al. [13], which treats the same case, and thus is plausibly correct and feasible. For the latter case, with analysis of the dynamic model, the calculation of reachable domain is transformed as the solution of the optimal control problem, the analysis and simulation results confirm the validity of the proposed method.