DESIGN OF A CONSTANT ATTITUDE TARGET FOR RENDEZVOUS WITH REMOTE MANEUVERING UNIT.

Abstract

A target satellite is designed to provide a test of the Remote Maneuvering Unit's rendezvous, television and radar capabilities and meet certain requirements imposed by NASA. A Fortran program is developed to calculate target trajectories based on perturbation theory and an atmospheric model which considers oblateness, solar heating and rotation.

Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Aug 01, 1964
Accession Number
AD0603617

Entities

People

  • Alan James Willoughby

Organizations

  • Air Force Institute of Technology

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Space

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Artificial Satellites
  • Heating
  • Orbits
  • Perturbation Theory
  • Perturbations
  • Rendezvous
  • Rotation
  • Solar Heating
  • Spacecraft Orbits
  • Trajectories

Fields of Study

  • Physics

Readers

  • Aerospace Test and Evaluation
  • Sensor Fusion and Tracking Systems.
  • Space Exploration and Orbital Mechanics.

Technology Areas

  • Space
  • Space - Orbital Debris
  • Space - Satellites
  • Space - Spacecraft Maneuvers