Print Email Facebook Twitter Orbital stability assessments of satellites orbiting Small Solar System Bodies Title Orbital stability assessments of satellites orbiting Small Solar System Bodies Author Ruevekamp, S. Contributor Noomen, R. (mentor) Ambrosius, B.A.C. (mentor) Faculty Aerospace Engineering Department Space Engineering - Astrodynamics and Space Missions Date 2009-08-28 Abstract This thesis presentation will discuss stability assessments of orbits around asteroids, with in particular the asteroid Eros. The gravity field of an asteroid can be estimated using different techniques. For the thesis work presented the Polyhedron, Spherical Harmonic Expansion and Triaxial Ellipsoid methods are implemented on the Eros case. The differences in performance of the different gravity field modelling techniques will be discussed. The irregularity of the gravity field of Eros will have consequences on the orbital stability of satellites orbiting Eros, the influence of this irregularity will be estimated. Furthermore, the influence of the Solar Radiation Pressure and Third-body Perturbing forces on the stability of orbits around Eros will be determined. With the help of the Monte Carlo method and the Particle Swarm Optimization method a search is performed to find stable orbits within the vicinity of Eros. Subject stability of orbits To reference this document use: http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:2ae8b406-6026-4ac0-88f4-33fb052c2dae Embargo date 2009-12-08 Part of collection Student theses Document type master thesis Rights (c) 2009 Ruevekamp, S. Files PDF Ruevekamp_S_-_final_thesis_.pdf 10.53 MB Close viewer /islandora/object/uuid:2ae8b406-6026-4ac0-88f4-33fb052c2dae/datastream/OBJ/view