A. Okhitina, Ya. Mashtakov, S. Tkachev, “Optimization of the thrusters’ location for ensuring the desaturation of the reaction wheels”, Keldysh Institute preprints, 2018,019, 32 pp.

Optimization of the thrusters’ location for ensuring the desaturation of the reaction wheels

A. Okhitina, Ya. Mashtakov, S. Tkachev

Abstract: The paper considers the approach for a problem of thrusters installation on geostationary satellite. Necessary and sufficient conditions for thrusters arrangement which guarantee both orbit correction and reaction wheel desaturation are obtained.

Keywords: reaction wheel, desaturation, thruster.

DOI: 10.20948/prepr-2018-19