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The principles, strategies, and algorithms of the station keeping of geostationary satellite are discussed. For north/south station keeping, the design of inclination confined ring and the calculation of inclination control target for single satellite and collocated satellites are discussed. The relation between control moment and local satellite time is also discussed and a specific case simulation of the control process is given. For east/west station keeping, the complicated situation of coupling control of the drift rate and eccentricity is analyzed, including the distribution strategy and the pulse execution algorithm of single pulse, bi-pulses, and tri-pulses.
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Li, H. (2014). Maintaining Geostationary Orbit. In: Geostationary Satellites Collocation. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-40799-4_7
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