The optimal stabilization problem for the pitching oscillations of a satellite is considered. For the reduced system, an optimal control problem with phase constraints is formulated and a controllability domain is constructed. A necessary optimality condition (the maximum principle for the optimal control problem with phase constraints) is used to determine the optimal trajectories, the nature of interaction between a trajectory and the phase constraint boundary, and the number of boundary segments. An optimal synthesis is proposed in the constructed domain.
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