most citedGravity gradient torque of spacecraft orbiting asteroids

27 citations · 30 across the 5 of their papers we have counts for

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astro-ph.EP2014

Nonlinear attitude stability of a spacecraft on a stationary orbit around an asteroid subjected to gravity gradient torque

Yue Wang, Shijie Xu

The classical problem of attitude stability in a central gravity field is generalized to that on a stationary orbit around a uniformly-rotating asteroid. This generalized problem i…

astro-ph.EP2014★ 1 cited

Body-fixed orbit-attitude hovering at equilibria near an asteroid using non-canonical Hamiltonian structure

Yue Wang, Shijie Xu

Orbit-attitude hovering of a spacecraft at the natural relative equilibria in the body-fixed frame of a uniformly rotating asteroid is discussed in the framework of the full spacec…

astro-ph.EP2014

Stability of the relative equilibria of a rigid body in a J2 gravity field

Yue Wang, Haichao Gui, Shijie Xu

The motion of a point mass in the J2 problem is generalized to that of a rigid body in a J2 gravity field. Different with the original J2 problem, the gravitational orbit-rotation…

astro-ph.EP2014★ 2 cited

Fourth-order gravity gradient torque of spacecraft orbiting asteroids

Yue Wang, Hong Guan, Shijie Xu

The dynamical behavior of spacecraft around asteroids is a key element in design of such missions. An asteroid's irregular shape, non-spherical mass distribution and its rotational…

astro-ph.EP2013★ 27 cited

Gravity gradient torque of spacecraft orbiting asteroids

Yue Wang, Shijie Xu

Purpose: This paper presents a full fourth-order model of the gravity gradient torque of spacecraft around asteroids by taking into consideration of the inertia integrals of the sp…

astro-ph.EP2013

On the existence of the relative equilibria of a rigid body in the J2 problem

Yue Wang, Shijie Xu, Liang Tang

The motion of a point mass in the J2 problem has been generalized to that of a rigid body in a J2 gravity field for new high-precision applications in the celestial mechanics and a…