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Traditionally, management of propellant fuel consumption on board of a spacecraft is only associated with the operation of jet-propulsion engines (JPE) that are actuator devices of motion control systems (MCS). The efficiency of propellant fuel consumption depends not only on the operation of the MCS, but also, to one extent or another, on all systems functioning on board of a spacecraft, and on processes that occur in them and involve conversion of variable management of propellant fuel consumption by JPEs as a constituent part of the control of the complex process of spacecraft flight.
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Kovtun, V.S. The methodology of variable management of propellant fuel consumption by jet-propulsion engines of a spacecraft. Therm. Eng. 59, 960–969 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1134/S0040601512130046
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