PLASMA PROPULSION FOR GEOSTATIONARY SATELLITES AND INTERPLANETARY SPACECRAFT
PLASMA PROPULSION FOR GEOSTATIONARY SATELLITES AND INTERPLANETARY SPACECRAFT
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对地静止卫星和行星际飞船的等离子体推进
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发表时间:
2011
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通讯作者:
S. Zurbach
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作者:
M. Dudeck;F. Doveil;N. Arcis;S. Zurbach
Geostationary telecommunication satellites require propulsion systems from its separation from the third stage of the launcher to the de-orbiting operation. At this separation with the third stage, the satellite is injected on a transfer orbit with an apogee at 36000 km from Earth surface. At the apogee of this orbit an applied thrust of 1-3 N gives an increment of velocity of ~1,9 m/s and moves the satellite to a quasi-circular and quasi-equatorial orbit. One or two supplementary months are necessary to make the orbit circular and equatorial, to open solar panels, to verify the instruments, to modify the satellite attitude and to set the satellite at its working longitude. The satellite has to be maintained at this working position throughout the mission (15 to 20 years). However the satellite moves in accordance with Lunar and Sun trajectories, inhomogeneity of the Earth and radiative Sun pressure. At the altitude of the geostationary orbit (GEO) the drag effect is negligible. The predominant effect is the Lunar-Solar interactions which are greater than the Earth inhomogeneity and the Sun radiation effects. Consequently, thrusters are required