Mehdi Moghadasian

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Is Apogee Kick Motors (AKM) thrust magnitude adjustable during mission? What about low thrust electric engines?

I am working on a paper that focuses on GTO to GEO satellite transfer maneuver. In most of scientific papers, constant thrust magnitude model has been considered for AKM or low thrust engines. Is...

09 February 2022 4,972 3 View

Is there any way to find feedback optimal control for fixed-end-point finite horizon LQ problem?

In "optimal control, linear quadratic methods" by B.O. Anderson and J. Moore, in chapter 2 there is a problem which asks the reader to show that it is not possible to solve finite horizon LQ with...

19 February 2021 4,074 6 View

How a continuous thrust orbit transfer can be compared with Hohmann transfer?

Suppose that I have found the solution of an optimal continuous thrust planar orbit transfer from circular orbit A to orbit B by means of a numerical method. It's considered that the mission must...

23 August 2019 5,283 7 View

What are the recent developments in low thrust orbital manoeuvre strategy design?

After successfully applying Vectorised High Order Expansions (VHOE) method to an aero-assisted mission and a rendezvous problem, now I am going to design an advanced manoeuvre strategy for a low...

15 May 2019 879 4 View

What is the typical specification of a continuous thrust spacecraft propulsion system?

I have solved and simulated a continuous thrust rendezvous problem recently. The maximum total acceleration is about 5 m/s^2 and the specific impulse is 1000 sec. I need to know: Is the given...

23 November 2018 8,490 5 View