Accession Number:

AD0672960

Title:

SYNCHRONOUS SATELLITE STATIONKEEPING SIMULATION

Descriptive Note:

Technical note

Corporate Author:

MASSACHUSETTS INST OF TECH LEXINGTON LINCOLN LAB

Personal Author(s):

• Crocker, M. Chandler
• Swenson, Ellen H.

Report Date:

1968-05-14

Pagination or Media Count:

116.0

Abstract:

A program has been written to simulate the east-west stationkeeping of a synchronous satellite. Different ways of implementing the thrust sequence of rocket motors and solar sails are discussed.

Descriptors:

• *COMPUTER PROGRAMS
• *SYNCHRONOUS SATELLITES
• FLOW CHARTING
• SUBROUTINES
• SOLAR WIND
• THRUST
• SEQUENCES(MATHEMATICS)
• CIRCULAR ORBITS
• SIMULATION
• MAINTENANCE
• ROCKET ENGINES

Subject Categories:

• Computer Programming and Software
• Unmanned Spacecraft
• Spacecraft Trajectories and Reentry

Distribution Statement:

APPROVED FOR PUBLIC RELEASE