Robustness and Maintenance of Quasi-Satellite Orbits around Phobos
García Mateas, Jose Carlos
Promotor(s) :
Kerschen, Gaëtan
Date of defense : 25-Jun-2020/26-Jun-2020 • Permalink : http://hdl.handle.net/2268.2/8785
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Title : | Robustness and Maintenance of Quasi-Satellite Orbits around Phobos |
Author : | García Mateas, Jose Carlos ![]() |
Date of defense : | 25-Jun-2020/26-Jun-2020 |
Advisor(s) : | Kerschen, Gaëtan ![]() |
Committee's member(s) : | Rauw, Grégor ![]() Leclère, Nicolas ![]() Dell'Elce, Lamberto |
Language : | English |
Keywords : | [fr] Phobos, MMX mission, Quasi-Satellite Orbits, Perturbations, Spherical Harmonics |
Discipline(s) : | Engineering, computing & technology > Aerospace & aeronautics engineering |
Institution(s) : | Université de Liège, Liège, Belgique |
Degree: | Master en ingénieur civil en aérospatiale, à finalité spécialisée en "aerospace engineering" |
Faculty: | Master thesis of the Faculté des Sciences appliquées |
Abstract
[en] The Martian moons pose one of the many unanswered questions regarding the bodies found in the Solar System. As a result, the Japanese Space Agency is developing the so-called Martian Moons eXploration mission (MMX) with the objective of landing in Phobos to retrieve a sample and bring it back to Earth. To land, the spacecraft must first orbit around the moon, where a very rich and complex dynamical environment with several perturbing accelerations is found. This thesis has therefore focused on developing a high precission orbital propagator for the MMX mission. To that end, a spherical harmonics model for the gravity of Mars, a constant density polyhedron for Phobos, solar radiation pressure and sun gravity have been taken into account, and the effect of these perturbations has been studied for a low-altitude Quasi-Satellite Orbit.
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