HOVERING ORBITS DESIGN FOR PERTURBED ASTEROIDS WITH PARAMETRIC EXCITATION RESONANCE 1)

本文将太阳引力摄动视为受摄不规则小行星系统的组成部分,借鉴非线性振动理论中参数激励共振的概念,创新性地设计了不规则小行星平衡点附近稳定的悬停观测轨道.为了同时考虑不规则小行星引力和太阳引力, 本文采用受摄粒杆模型描述系统.通过对未扰系统平衡点以及固有频率的分析, 给出系统存在参激共振轨道的条件.再以第二类参激主共振和1:3内共振为例,采用多尺度方法求得参数激励共振轨道的稳态解, 并对稳态解的稳定性进行判断.通过受摄小行星系统的幅频响应曲线以及力频响应曲线分析了系统的非线性特性以及参数激励效应.此外, 对内共振引起的长短周期能量转移现象进行了分析.本文的研究成果可以拓展现有小行星系统周期轨道族设计方法.     

基于参激共振的受摄小行星悬停轨道设计方法

本文将太阳引力摄动视为受摄不规则小行星系统的组成部分,借鉴非线性振动理论中参数激励共振的概念,创新性地设计了不规则小行星平衡点附近稳定的悬停观测轨道.为了同时考虑不规则小行星引力和太阳引力, 本文采用受摄粒杆模型描述系统.通过对未扰系统平衡点以及固有频率的分析, 给出系统存在参激共振轨道的条件.再以第二类参激主共振和1:3内共振为例,采用多尺度方法求得参数激励共振轨道的稳态解, 并对稳态解的稳定性进行判断.通过受摄小行星系统的幅频响应曲线以及力频响应曲线分析了系统的非线性特性以及参数激励效应.此外, 对内共振引起的长短周期能量转移现象进行了分析.本文的研究成果可以拓展现有小行星系统周期轨道族设计方法.      

双小行星探测轨道动力学研究进展

双小行星系统由在万有引力作用下彼此环绕的两颗小行星组成, 对研究太阳系起源、行星系统演化和行星防御都具有重要的价值, 近年来成为行星科学和航天动力学研究的热门对象, 对双小行星系统的原位探测也即将迎来热潮. 双小行星系统的独特构型和附近的复杂动力学环境为探测器轨道动力学和任务设计带来了全新的挑战, 为应对这些挑战所进行的研究也推动了轨道动力学基础理论的发展. 本文对双小行星探测轨道动力学的研究进展进行综述, 首先介绍了双小行星研究和探测的背景及意义, 简要阐述了双小行星系统形成理论及其附近轨道动力学的研究概况. 其次, 介绍了双小行星系统不规则引力场和相互引力势的建模方法, 进而展示了双星的姿态轨道耦合动力学, 即完全二体问题, 包括双星相对运动的平衡构型和稳定性. 接着, 介绍了描述双星附近探测器轨道运动的限制性完全三体问题的动力学模型, 以及该模型下的平动点、平动点周期轨道、大范围周期轨道、转移轨道和轨道维持等方面的研究进展. 第四部分综述了环绕双小行星系统单颗星的受摄二体问题, 以轨道摄动理论和行星系统中受摄二体问题的研究现状为背景, 介绍了环绕双小行星系统主星的半解析轨道动力学建模与轨道稳定性分析. 之后, 介绍了目前面向探测任务需求和考虑实际约束的轨道动力学研究和轨道设计. 最后, 基于目前研究进展, 分析了面临的若干问题, 对未来双小行星探测轨道动力学及相关技术的发展进行了讨论和展望.      

REVIEW ON OPTIMIZATION OF ASTEROID CAPTURE ORBITS

小行星捕获对研究行星起源、地球生命来源、防御小行星撞击地球和开采行星矿产资源具有重要的意义。由于现有的推进器能力不足,小行星捕获任务中优化小行星捕获所需要的速度增量是任务成败的关键。本文分别从利用引力辅助轨道优化、连续小推力轨迹优化、小行星捕获任务轨道优化设计及小行星临时捕获等4 个方向介绍小行星捕获轨道优化方面国内外研究进展及现状。基于对上述研究现状的分析,尝试展望小行星捕获轨道优化研究的未来发展趋势。     

Asteroid debris: Temporary capture and escape orbits

We investigate the dynamical behaviour of debris ejected from the surface of an asteroid, due to a generic – natural or artificial – surface process. We make an extensive statistical study of the dynamics of particles flowing from the asteroid. We observe different behaviours: particles which fall again on the asteroid surface, or rather escape from its gravitational field or are temporary trapped in orbit around the asteroid. The tests are made by varying different parameters, like the size of the asteroid, its eccentricity, the angular velocity of the asteroid, the area-to-mass ratio of the debris.We also extend the study to the case of a sample of binary asteroids with a mass ratio equal to 10⁻³; we vary the distance of the moonlet from the asteroid, to see its effect on the debris dynamics.Our simulations aim to identify regions where the debris can temporarily orbit around the asteroid or rather escape from it or fall back on the surface. These results give an important information on where a spacecraft could be safely stay after the end of the process which has produced the debris.     

不规则小行星引力场内的飞行动力学

小行星探测是当前深空探测的主要方向之一,具有重要的科学意义.绝大多数小行星引力场极不规则,探测器在小行星附近运动形态复杂多样.由于同时受到中心引力、快速自旋的不规则形状摄动力、以及光压摄动等作用,探测器容易与小行星发生碰撞或逃逸.概述小行星研究现状和不规则引力场建模方法.重点介绍不规则引力场内动力学特性,包括引力平衡点、局部流形、自然周期轨道和悬停探测轨道等,尝试提出新的研究方向.     

A survey on orbital dynamics and navigation of asteroid missions

Asteroid exploration is currently one of the most concerned topics among international space agencies. Or- bital dynamics and navigation are obviously crucial for asteroid exploration. This paper aims to give a brief review on the dynamics, control and navigation of asteroid reconnaissance orbits, including the heliocentric transfer orbit and near as- teroid orbit. The developments in optimization techniques of the transfer segment are discussed in detail. We surveyed global researches in this field and made comments on several important progresses. The final section proposed a prospec- tive of future studies with emphasis on the key techniques of these issues in the asteroid exploration missions.     

Near-Earth asteroid flyby trajectories from the Sun-Earth L2 for Chang’e-2’s extended flight

Driven by curiosity about possible flight options for the Chang'e-2 spacecraft after it remains at the Sun-Earth L2 point, effective approaches were developed for designing preliminary fuel-optimal near-Earth asteroid flyby trajectories. The approaches include the use of modified unstable manifolds, grid search of the manifolds' parameters, and a two-impulse maneuver for orbital phase matching and z-axis bias change, and are demonstrated to be effective in asteroid target screening and trajectory optimization. Asteroid flybys are expected to be within a distance of 2×107 km from the Earth owing to the constrained Earth-spacecraft communication range. In this case, the spacecraft's orbital motion is significantly affected by the gravities of both the Sun and the Earth, and therefore, the concept of the "heliocentric oscillating-Kepler orbit" is proposed, because the classical orbital elements of the flyby trajectories referenced in the heliocentric inertial frame oscillate significantly with respect to time. The analysis and results presented in this study show that, among the asteroids whose orbits are the most accurately predicted, "Toutatis", "2005 NZ6", or "2010 CL19" might be encountered by Chang'e-2 in late 2012 or 2013 with total impulses less than 100m/s.     

Forced resonance orbit analysis of binary asteroid system with consideration of solar radiation pressure

The solar radiation pressure is one of the major perturbations to orbits in the study of binary asteroid system, since asteroids have relatively weak gravity fields. In this paper, based on the idea of treating the solar radiation pressure as periodic external excitation, one novel family of orbits due to primary resonance and another novel family of orbits due to both primary resonance and internal resonance have been found by the classical perturbation method. The two types of steady-state orbits due to external resonance with different area-to-mass ratios have been determined and discussed by the frequency–response equations analytically. Four binary asteroid systems, 283 Emma-S/2003 (283) 1, 22 Kalliope-Linus, 2006 Polonskaya-S/2005 (2006) 1 and 4029 Bridges have been taken as examples to show the validity of the proposed mechanism in the explanation of orbits formation due to resonance. The multiple shooting method is applied to obtain the resonance orbits after numerical iterations.

     

Averaging analyses for spacecraft orbital motions around asteroids

This paper summarizes a few cases of spacecraft orbital motion around asteroid for which averaging method can be applied, i.e., when central body rotates slowly, fast, and when a spacecraft is near to the resonant orbits between the spacecraft mean motion and the central body＇s rotation. Averaging conditions for these cases are given. As a major extension, a few classes of near resonant orbits are analyzed by the averaging method. Then some resulted conclusions of these averaging analyses are applied to understand the stabil- ity regions in a numerical experiment. Some stability conclu- sions are obtained. As a typical example, it is shown in detail that near circular 1 ： 2 resonant orbit is always unstable.     

小行星的奇特动力学1）

小行星数以百万计,有着千奇百怪的外形.无论是小行星自身长期演化、还是它们附近的绕飞物体,都有着奇特的动力学现象.介绍小行星研究现状和发展趋势,阐明影响小行星姿态轨道长期演化的重要作用--雅科夫斯基效应和YORP效应.概述小行星不规则引力场描述方法与其中复杂的周期轨道,尝试提炼其中的科学问题和研究方向.     

近圆参考轨道卫星编队洛仑兹力控制

基于运动电荷在磁场中切割磁力线受到洛仑兹力作用的物理规律,分析了两种带电模式对经典轨道根数长期变化的影响:(1)卫星恒定带电模式;(2)前半个轨道周期卫星带电、后半周期不带电的非恒定带电模式.恒定带电模式可以有效地改变轨道升交点赤经、近地点幅角以及平近点角,对轨道半长轴、偏心率和倾角几乎不产生长期影响;而非恒定带电模式则可以有效地改变轨道偏心率.基于洛仑兹力作用下轨道根数长期变化规律以及轨道根数差描述的带电副星相对于不带电主星的运动,提出了利用洛仑兹力以及两种带电模式实现地球低轨近圆参考轨道卫星编队的控制策略,包括编队绕飞椭圆大小重构与编队中心漂移控制,解析求解了副星所需的带电量,并利用数值仿真验证了洛仑兹力控制的可行性.需要指出的是,洛仑兹力轨道控制无需消耗推进工质.      

万有引力场中陀螺体的混沌运动

研究万有引力场中沿圆轨道运行的非对称陀螺体的姿态运动,引入Ｄｅｐｒｉｔ正则变量建立系统的Ｈａｍｉｌｔｏｎ结构,利用Ｍｅｌｎｉｋｏｖ方法证明在万有引力短作用的昆体产生混沌运动的可能性。对Ｐｏｉｎｃａｒｅ截面的数值计算表明提高陀螺体的转子转速可对混沌起抑制作用。     

USEFUL RELATIVE MOTION DESCRIPTION METHOD FOR PERTURBATIONS ANALYSIS IN SATELLITE FORMATION FLYING

Nomenclature OXYZEarth’sequatorialinertialreferenceframeωArgumentofperigee SlxyzLeadingsatelliteorbitframeMMeananomaly SfxyzFollowingsatelliteorbitframefTrueanomalyaSemi majoraxisθ=ω fArgumentoflatitude eEccentricitynMeanmotion iOrbitinclinationrSatel…     

State-of-the-art and prospects for orbital dynamics and control near small celestial bodies

小天体探测是未来深空探测的重点领域之一, 而小天体附近轨道动力学与控制问题是小天体探测任务迫切需要解决的关键问题. 该问题涉及形状不规则小天体附近的动力学环境建模与小天体附近轨道动力学机理. 本文从不规则形状小天体引力场的建模、小天体附近的自然轨道动力学、小天体附近的受控轨道动力学3 个方面综述了小天体附近轨道动力学与控制的研究现状与发展趋势, 并分析了小天体附近轨道动力学所面临的挑战与难题, 最后对我国未来小天体探测任务可能涉及的轨道动力学与控制问题的发展方向进行了展望.     

THE EVOLUTION CHARACTERIZATION OF LIBRATIN POINT ORBITS AND APPLICATION RESEARCH

三体问题中, 轨道的受力和运动规律非常复杂. 对于特定的任务, 如何选择轨道的初始解是一大难题.针对平面三体问题, 利 用近拱点庞加莱映射, 对平动点顺行轨道和逆行轨道的长期和短期演化性质进行分析.根据轨道的初始状态将其分为逃逸轨道和捕获轨道.对于逃逸轨道, 给出了同宿轨道和异宿轨道的设计方法, 并利用两级微分修正法消除了拼接点处的位置不连续问题.对于捕获轨道, 得到了几类典型的周期和准周期轨道.对逆行轨道的演化性质进行分析时发现, 逆行轨道通常为准周期轨道, 比顺行轨道更加稳定.利用近拱点庞加莱映射可以快速确定不同类型轨道对应的初始状态, 为特定任务需求下的轨道设计提供了一种快速而有效的选择方案.     

Flight dynamics over irregular asteroids

小行星探测是当前深空探测的主要方向之一,具有重要的科学意义.绝大多数小行星引力场极不规则,探测器在小行星附近运动形态复杂多样.由于同时受到中心引力、快速自旋的不规则形状摄动力、以及光压摄动等作用,探测器容易与小行星发生碰撞或逃逸.概述小行星研究现状和不规则引力场建模方法.重点介绍不规则引力场内动力学特性,包括引力平衡点、局部流形、自然周期轨道和悬停探测轨道等,尝试提出新的研究方向.     

A METHOD TO CORRECT CATALOG ORBIT DETERMINATION VELOCITY 1)

对于大批量空间目标,监测资源有限,测轨数据稀疏,导致编目定轨结果误差较大。本文分析了不同轨道类型的编目轨道预报误差演化特性,分析结果表明,轨道预报误差主要分布在沿迹方向,且主要是由于大气阻力摄动模型误差和初始径向速度误差引起的。进一步的理论推导显示,在忽略初始位置误差的假设条件下,轨道初值误差引起的预报位置误差前后具有近似对称特性,利用仿真数据,验证了近似对称特性的正确性。基于上述分析,本文提出了一种校准编目定轨初始速度的方法,即通过减小向前预报的位置与已知位置的偏差来迭代地校准定轨结果的速度,从而提高目标向后预报的轨道精度。利用实际轨道数据的试验结果表明,该方法对于采用稀疏数据的近圆轨道目标定轨结果修正效果明显,可以有效改进自主编目定轨结果的精度,对提高大批量空间目标的编目管理能力具有重要价值。     

On the nonlinear stability of relative equilibria of the full spacecraft dynamics around an asteroid

The full dynamics of a spacecraft around an asteroid, in which the gravitational orbit–attitude coupling is considered, has been shown to be of great value and interest. Nonlinear stability of the relative equilibria of the full dynamics of a rigid spacecraft around a uniformly rotating asteroid is studied with the method of geometric mechanics. The non-canonical Hamiltonian structure of the problem, i.e., Poisson tensor, Casimir functions and equations of motion, are given in the differential geometric method. A classical kind of relative equilibria of the spacecraft is determined from a global point of view, at which the mass center of the spacecraft is on a stationary orbit, and the attitude is constant with respect to the asteroid. The conditions of nonlinear stability of the relative equilibria are obtained with the energy-Casimir method through the semi-positive definiteness of the projected Hessian matrix of the variational Lagrangian. Finally, example asteroids with a wide range of parameters are considered, and the nonlinear stability criterion is calculated. However, it is found that the nonlinear stability condition cannot be satisfied by spacecraft with any mass distribution parameters. The nonlinear stability condition by us is only the sufficient condition, but not the necessary condition, for the nonlinear stability. It means that the energy-Casimir method cannot provide any information about nonlinear stability of the relative equilibria, and more powerful tools, which are the analogues of the Arnold’s theorem in the canonical Hamiltonian system with two degrees of freedom, are needed for a further investigation.     

Optimal design of near-Earth asteroid sample-return trajectories in the Sun–Earth–Moon system

In the 6th edition of the Chinese Space Trajectory Design Competition held in 2014, a near-Earth asteroid sample-return trajectory design problem was released, in which the motion of the spacecraft is modeled in multi-body dynamics, considering the gravitational forces of the Sun,Earth, and Moon. It is proposed that an electric-propulsion spacecraft initially parking in a circular 200-km-altitude low Earth orbit is expected to rendezvous with an asteroid and carry as much sample as possible back to the Earth in a10-year time frame. The team from the Technology and Engineering Center for Space Utilization, Chinese Academy of Sciences has reported a solution with an asteroid sample mass of 328 tons, which is ranked first in the competition.In this article, we will present our design and optimization methods, primarily including overall analysis, target selection, escape from and capture by the Earth–Moon system,and optimization of impulsive and low-thrust trajectories that are modeled in multi-body dynamics. The orbital resonance concept and lunar gravity assists are considered key techniques employed for trajectory design. The reported solution, preliminarily revealing the feasibility of returning a hundreds-of-tons asteroid or asteroid sample, envisions future space missions relating to near-Earth asteroid exploration.