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Review of deployment technology for tethered satellite systems

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Tethered satellite systems (TSSs) have attracted significant attention due to their potential and valuable applications for scientific research. With the development of various launched on-orbit missions, the deployment of tethers is considered a crucial technology for operation of a TSS. Both past orbiting experiments and numerical results have shown that oscillations of the deployed tether due to the Coriolis force and environmental perturbations are inevitable and that the impact between the space tether and end-body at the end of the deployment process leads to complicated nonlinear phenomena. Hence, a set of suitable control methods plays a fundamental role in tether deployment. This review article summarizes previous work on aspects of the dynamics, control, and ground-based experiments of tether deployment. The relevant basic principles, analytical expressions, simulation cases, and experimental results are presented as well.

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This study was funded by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (11672125, 11732006), the Civil Aerospace Pre-research Project of China (D010305), the Research Fund of State Key Laboratory of Mechanics and Control of Mechanical Structures (Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, MCMS-0116K01), the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities (NS2016009), and in part by the Priority Academic Program Development of Jiangsu Higher Education Institutions.

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Yu, B.S., Wen, H. & Jin, D.P. Review of deployment technology for tethered satellite systems. Acta Mech. Sin. 34, 754–768 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10409-018-0752-5

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