Date of Award

Summer 1974

Document Type

Thesis

Degree Name

Master of Science (MS)

Department

Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering

Program/Concentration

Mechanical Engineering

Committee Director

W. J. Breedlove

Committee Member

J. M. Alvarez

Committee Member

A.S. Roberts

Call Number for Print

Special Collections; LD4331.E56F87

Abstract

Explosions in space produce particles that are hazardous to space vehicles. Some of these particles are not trackable and their locations must be predicted by dynamical methods.

This investigation sheds light on three different, areas, First, ignoring perturbations, the characteristics of a three dimensional envelope outlined by the sum of individual particle orbits is determined, Second, the distribution of the particles is found as a function of time, Finally, the movement, of the body via secular perturbations is investigated. Magnitudes of the explosion, the point of. detonation in the parent satellite's orbit, and the radius of perigee of the parent satellite are varied as parameters.

It was found that the particles evenly distributed themselves throughout the envelope, with areas of higher density due to its shape. Perturbations caused drastic changes in the size and orientation of the envelope, thereby complicating the prediction of the areas of higher density.

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DOI

10.25777/ymy3-wt32

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