End-of-life disposal of high elliptical orbit missions: the case of INTEGRAL
End-of-life disposal of high elliptical orbit missions: the case of INTEGRAL
Nowadays there is international consensus that space activities must be managed to minimize debris generation and risk. The paper presents a method for the end-of-life (EoL) disposal of spacecraft in high elliptical orbits (HEO). The time evolution of HEO is strongly affected by Earth’s oblateness and luni-solar perturbation, and this can cause in the long-term to extended interferences with low Earth orbit (LEO) protected region and uncontrolled Earth re-entry. An EoL disposal concept that exploits the effect of orbital perturbations to reduce the disposal cost is presented. The problem is formulated as a multiobjective optimization problem, which is solved with an evolutionary algorithm. To explore at the best the search space a semi-analytical orbit propagator, which allows the propagation of the orbit motion for 100 years in few seconds, is adopted. The EoL disposal of the INTErnational Gamma-Ray Astrophysics Laboratory (INTEGRAL) mission is used as a practical test-case to show the effectiveness of the proposed methodology
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Armellin, Roberto
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San-Juan, Juan F.
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Lara, Martin
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26 March 2015
Armellin, Roberto
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San-Juan, Juan F.
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Lara, Martin
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Armellin, Roberto, San-Juan, Juan F. and Lara, Martin
(2015)
End-of-life disposal of high elliptical orbit missions: the case of INTEGRAL.
Advances in Space Research, .
(doi:10.1016/j.asr.2015.03.020).
Abstract
Nowadays there is international consensus that space activities must be managed to minimize debris generation and risk. The paper presents a method for the end-of-life (EoL) disposal of spacecraft in high elliptical orbits (HEO). The time evolution of HEO is strongly affected by Earth’s oblateness and luni-solar perturbation, and this can cause in the long-term to extended interferences with low Earth orbit (LEO) protected region and uncontrolled Earth re-entry. An EoL disposal concept that exploits the effect of orbital perturbations to reduce the disposal cost is presented. The problem is formulated as a multiobjective optimization problem, which is solved with an evolutionary algorithm. To explore at the best the search space a semi-analytical orbit propagator, which allows the propagation of the orbit motion for 100 years in few seconds, is adopted. The EoL disposal of the INTErnational Gamma-Ray Astrophysics Laboratory (INTEGRAL) mission is used as a practical test-case to show the effectiveness of the proposed methodology
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Accepted/In Press date: 18 March 2015
Published date: 26 March 2015
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URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/377351
ISSN: 0273-1177
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