Study of the Fuel Consumption for Station-Keeping Maneuvers for GEO satellites based on the Integral of the Perturbing Forces over Time

摘要

This paper provides a study of the estimate of the amount of fuel required for station-keeping maneuvers to maintain a satellite in its nominal position. The method used is based on an integral of the perturbing forces over the time. The result of this integral is the velocity change that the satellite needs to perform all the time to compensate the deviations caused by the perturbing forces. The perturbing forces considered in the present paper are the Luni-Solar perturbation and the J_2 effect of the gravitational field. The solutions presented here are obtained by numerical methods.