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Stability of planar oscillations of a satellite in an elliptic orbit

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A problem of stability of odd 2π-periodic oscillations of a satellite in the plane of an elliptic orbit of arbitrary eccentricity is considered. The motion is supposed to be only under the influence of gravitational torques.

Stability of plane oscillations was investigated earlier (Zlatoustovet al., 1964) in linear approximation. In the present paper a problem of stability is solved in the non-linear mode. Terms up to the forth order inclusive are taken into consideration in expansion of Hamiltonian in a series.

It is shown that necessary conditions of stability obtained in linear approximation coincide with sufficient conditions for almost all values of parameters α ande (inertial characteristics of the satellite and eccentricity of the orbit). Exceptions represent either values of the parameters α,e when a problem of stability cannot be solved in a strict manner by non-linear approximation under consideration, or values of the parameters which correspond to resonances of the third and fourth orders. At the resonance of the third order oscillations are unstable, but at the resonance of the fourth order both unstability and stability of the satellite's oscillations take place depending on the values of the parameters α,e.

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  1. U.S.S.R. Academy of Sciences, Institute of Applied Mathematics, Moscow, U.S.S.R.

    V. A. Zlatoustov & A. P. Markeev

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Zlatoustov, V.A., Markeev, A.P. Stability of planar oscillations of a satellite in an elliptic orbit. Celestial Mechanics 7, 31–45 (1973). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01243507

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