and Control of Space
Systems
Solution Manual
Krishna Dev Kumar
Professor and Canada Research Chair in Space Systems
Department of Aerospace Engineering
Ryerson University
Toronto, Canada
,Contents
Preface v
2 Kinematics, Momentum and Energy 1
3 Forces and Torques 33
4 Dynamics I 39
5 Dynamics II 45
6 Mathematical and Numerical Simulation 65
7 Control System 85
8 Formation Flying 115
Index 121
vii
, Chapter 2
Kinematics, Momentum
and Energy
Problem Set 2
2.1 The coordinate frames used in studying the dynamics of a spacecraft
are as follows:
a) Inertial reference frame,
b) Orbital reference frame,
c) Perifocal reference frame,
c) Satellite body-fixed reference frame.
2.2 The inertial frames are those coordinate frames that are nonrotating
and nonaccelerating frames. The inertial frames are relevant because
in applying the Newton’s second law of motion
~
dV
F~ = m (2.1)
dt
to derive the equation of motion of a system, the velocity V ~ and the
~
corresponding acceleration dV /dt in the right-hand side of the above
equation are to measured with respect to an inertial frame of reference.
An Earth-fixed frame is not an inertial frame as it is spinning about
its axis with a period of 24 hour. When viewed from space, the point
on the surface of the earth moves in a circle as the earth spins on its
axis. Thus, it is accelerating with an centripetal acceleration of rω 2 ,