Peer-to-Peer Refueling Strategy Using Low-Thrust Propulsion

Dutta, Atri; Arora, Nitin; Russell, Ryan P.

doi:10.2514/1.60041

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“…Tsiotras, Dutta, and Yu focused on OOR missions using peer-to-peer (P2P) strategy, and formulated the problem by network flow model or bipartite graph. 11–17 Yu et al. 4 also paid attention to OOR missions using mixed strategy, and economic efficiencies of different OOR strategies are compared and discussed.…”

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Biobjective mission planning for geosynchronous satellites on-orbit refueling

Dong

et al. 2017

Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Part G:

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On-orbit refueling plays a key role in extending the lifespan of space assets. Geosynchronous Earth orbit (GEO) satellites are of high strategic and commercial value. The optimal scheduling for geosynchronous Earth orbit on-orbit refueling mission is studied in this paper, considering bi-objective function. Assuming that all space assets are originally located on the geosynchronous Earth orbit belt and noncoplanar, this paper aims at allocating the targets to the servicing spacecrafts, optimizing the rendezvous sequences and transfer trajectories of the servicing spacecrafts as well as their initial orbital location, dry mass, and fuel mass. Taking orbital transfer fuel cost and transfer time as the objective functions, a mathematical optimization model is proposed, as well as the solution method. Numerical simulations of various configurations are carried out to verify the effectiveness of the model and solution method. It can be concluded from the simulations that the optimal initial position of the servicing spacecraft prefers the area where the targets are concentrated; the servicing spacecraft initial orbital parameters have significant influences on the mission planning results; and it is fuel-saving and time-saving to employ more servicing spacecraft for on-orbit refueling mission and to optimize the initial location of the servicing spacecrafts.

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Biobjective mission planning for geosynchronous satellites on-orbit refueling

Dong

et al. 2017

Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Part G:

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“…In another study, 19 they investigated the egalitarian P2P strategy for the satellite refuelling. Also, Dutta et al 20 studied the P2P refuelling strategies in which perform through low thrust propulsion systems. Furthermore, Chen and Yu 21 studied the optimal mission planning of GEO on-orbit refuelling in the mixed strategy.…”

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The effects of parking orbit elements on designing of on-orbit servicing missions

Bakhtiari

Daneshjou

Mohammadi-Dehabadi

2017

Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Part G:

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Nowadays on-orbit servicing operations such as satellite refuelling, debris removal and visual inspection are considered as the most important issues in the space missions. Mission planning has a key role on the designation of such missions and it is strongly dependent on the required fuel. In this study, a new approach is proposed for the designing of the on-orbit operations with considering the parking orbit elements and location of the servicing satellites. The proposed method improves the previous mission planning process of the multiple servicing satellites in the terms of the reduction in the mission fuel consumption. Furthermore, a special rendezvous maneuver is considered for meeting the servicing satellites and the targets. Also, the transfer orbits are obtained through Lambert targeting. The optimisation of the problem is carried out by particle swarm optimisation algorithm and Taguchi technique is employed for the robust design of the control parameters of the optimisation algorithm. The results reveal that the proposed approach is an efficient way in the reduction of the fuel consumption in the on-orbit servicing missions rather than the conventional methods.

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“…Two time-fixed cooperative maneuvers have been proposed and utility for Peer-to-Peer (P2P) has been demonstrated in reference [7]. Egalitarian P2P and optimal low thrust P2P have been studied in reference [8] and [9]. Long-range cooperative rendezvous between two coplanar spacecraft on LEO has been theoretically analyzed in reference [10].…”

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A Cooperative Rendezvous Strategy for Co-orbital Spacecraft

Wang¹,

Wang²,

Li³

2017

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In this paper, a new type of time-fixed cooperative rendezvous between two spacecraft in the same circular orbit is proposed and analytical solutions are obtained in consideration of two body model. The analytical solution is used as initial value in the optimization model which solves the rendezvous problem with high precision. The simulation which compares results of two body model and J 2 perturbation model shows that this new cooperative rendezvous strategy named Hohmann-Ellipse Cooperative Maneuver (HECM) has great advantage over traditional active-passive rendezvous methods. Given a fixed time, the velocity of cooperative rendezvous can decrease by 30% at most when compared with non-cooperative rendezvous.

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Peer-to-Peer Refueling Strategy Using Low-Thrust Propulsion

Cited by 3 publications

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Biobjective mission planning for geosynchronous satellites on-orbit refueling

Biobjective mission planning for geosynchronous satellites on-orbit refueling

The effects of parking orbit elements on designing of on-orbit servicing missions

A Cooperative Rendezvous Strategy for Co-orbital Spacecraft

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