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Talks and Poster Presentations (with Proceedings-Entry):

V. Buchin, A. Burov, H. Troger:
"A Dumb-bell Satellite with a Cabin. Existence and Stability of Relative Equilibria";
Talk: 6th EUROMECH Conference ENOC 2008, Russia; 2008-06-30 - 2008-07-04; in: "Enoc 2008", A. Fradkov (ed.); (2008), Paper ID 246, 6 pages.



English abstract:
The problem of motion of a dumb-bell satellite in an
orbital plane passing through the attracting center is
considered. It is assumed that the satellite is equipped
with a cabin that is allowed to slide along the straight
connection of the two endbodies. The structure of the
set of stationary configurations depending on the pa-
rameter, which is the position of the cabin, is studied
both analytically and numerically. Especially bifurca-
tion of trivial configurations for which the dumb-bell
is located along the local vertical is considered. It is
shown that this bifurcation is accompanied by the ap-
pearance or disappearance of "oblique" configurations,
for which all massive points composing the satellite are
not located at the common vertical.

Keywords:
Bifurcation, relative equilibria, Energy Momentum Method


Electronic version of the publication:
http://publik.tuwien.ac.at/files/PubDat_166413.pdf


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