Lunar Polar Orbit Relay Constellation and Its Deployment and Maintenance
Lunar relay satellite (LRS) constellation is required for the exploration of the back and polar region of the Moon. In order to provide high coverage performance, generally we choose high circular or elliptical orbits for the relay satellites. Elliptical orbit constellation needs the minimum number of satellites to provide continuous coverage of the Moons south pole region. But the circular polar orbit has better scalability, and is easy to constitute a global coverage constellation by launching and deploying twice the same number of satellites. Here the polar orbit, which not only meets the demand for work, but also has high stability, has been found through establishing the satellite’s force model and the perturbation function in lunar environment, and designing the deployment and maintenance strategy of the constellation.
Lunar exploration Circular polar orbit Lunar relay satellite ( LRS ) Constellation deployment Orbit maintenance
Lu Yi Yang Yikang Li Xue Zhu Zhiyong Li Haitao Dong Guangliang
Institute of Aeronautics & AstronauticsUniversity of Electronic Science and Technology of China,Chen Beijing Institute of Tracking and Telecommunication Technology，Beijing, 100094，China Beijing Institute of Tracking and TelecommunicationTechnology，Beijing, 100094，China
国际会议
三亚
英文
333-336
2012-01-06（万方平台首次上网日期，不代表论文的发表时间）