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The Lorentz force acting on an electrostatically charged spacecraft provides a new means of propulsion for orbital maneuvers such as Lorentz-augmented spacecraft formation flying. Modeling the Earth's magnetic field as a tilted dipole corotating with Earth, a nonlinear dynamical model that describes the orbital motion of a Lorentz spacecraft about an arbitrary elliptic orbit is developed. Then, the...
An electrostatically charged spacecraft accelerates as it moves through the Earth׳s magnetic field due to the induced Lorentz force, providing a new means of propellantless electromagnetic propulsion for orbital maneuvers. The feasibility of Lorentz-augmented spacecraft formation flying in elliptic orbits is investigated in this paper. Assuming the Earth׳s magnetic field as a tilted dipole corotating...
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