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The problem of optimum rendezvous of a controllable spacecraft (SC) with an uncontrollable spacecraft, moving over a Keplerian elliptic orbit in the gravitational field of the Sun, is considered. Control of the SC is performed using a solar sail and low-thrust engine. For solving the problem, the regular quaternion equations of the two-body problem with the Kustaanheimo-Stiefel variables and the Pontryagin maximum principle are used. The combined integral quality functional, which characterizes energy consumption for controllable SC transition from an initial to final state and the time spent for this transition, is used as a minimized functional. The differential boundary-value optimization problems are formulated, and their first integrals are found. Examples of numerical solution of problems are presented. The paper develops the application [1–6] of quaternion regular equations with the Kustaanheimo-Stiefel variables in the space flight mechanics.
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Original Russian Text © Ya.G. Sapunkov, Yu.N. Chelnokov, 2014, published in Kosmicheskie Issledovaniya, 2014, Vol. 52, No. 6, pp. 489–499.
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Sapunkov, Y.G., Chelnokov, Y.N. Construction of optimum controls and trajectories of motion of the center of masses of a spacecraft equipped with the solar sail and low-thrust engine, using quaternions and Kustaanheimo-Stiefel variables. Cosmic Res 52, 450–460 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1134/S0010952514060057
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