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Space Propulsion - IAP/TU Wien

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<strong>Space</strong> <strong>Propulsion</strong><br />

dir. of ext. torque<br />

one-sided limit cycle<br />

with an external torque on the spacecraft,<br />

rotation occurs until a limit line is reached<br />

and a thruster pair is fired for correction<br />

total angular momentum H supplied by the<br />

propulsion system exactly equals the momentum<br />

induced by the external torque T x during mission<br />

time t m ; F is time – averaged thrust<br />

H = T t =<br />

x<br />

m<br />

Ft<br />

m<br />

propellant mass required to compensate for the<br />

external torque<br />

nF<br />

I<br />

nFL<br />

m p = tm<br />

= tm<br />

=<br />

sp<br />

LI<br />

sp<br />

T<br />

LI<br />

x<br />

sp<br />

t<br />

m<br />

cont‘d

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