The Modal Solution to the Moon's Orbit Using Canonical Floquet Perturbation Theory

Abstract

Using the restricted three body problem, the equations of motion (EOM) and Hamiltonian are computed for the moon's orbit in physical variables. A periodic orbit is found in the vicinity of the moon's orbit, and classical Floquet theory is applied to the periodic orbit to give stability information and the complete solution to the equations of variation. Floquet theory also supplies a transformation from physical variables to modal variables. This transformation to modal variables is made canonical by constraining the initial transformation matrix to be symplectic. Actual lunar data is used to calculate the modes for the real moon's orbit. Once satisfied that the moon's real-world modes are in (or near) the linear regime of the periodic orbit, the modal EOM are found by doing a perturbation expansion on the new modal Hamiltonian. The modal results from the real lunar orbit are compared with the modal EOM/ expansion results. The modal expansion proves to be an accurate solution to the moon's orbit given enough expansion terms.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Dec 01, 1993
Accession Number
ADA273732

Entities

People

  • Kurt A. Vogel

Organizations

  • Air Force Institute of Technology

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Energy and Power Technologies
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Air Force
  • Celestial Mechanics
  • Coordinate Systems
  • Dynamics
  • Eigenvalues
  • Ephemerides
  • Equations
  • Equations Of Motion
  • Harmonic Analysis
  • Linear Systems
  • Longitude
  • New York
  • Orbits
  • Perturbation Theory
  • Perturbations
  • Trajectories
  • United States

Fields of Study

  • Physics

Readers

  • Control Systems Engineering.
  • Space Exploration and Orbital Mechanics.

Technology Areas

  • Space
  • Space - Orbital Debris