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OrbiterTechnicalNotes:DistributedVesselMass

MartinSchweiger

September27,2005

1Introduction





 

Apointmassplacedatpositioninagravitationalfieldexperiencesaforce



.Foranextendedobjectwithadensitydistribution 
theresulting

forcecanbeobtainedbyintegratingoveritsvolume

:




 
 


Fornumericalcalculationsitissometimesusefultodiscretisetheobjectintoarigid

systemofpointmasseswhoserelativepositionsaredefinedbytheirbarycentric



coordinates.Then,

#



$
CG

whereCGisthepositionofthebarycentre.Forthecalculationofthelinearforce

Orbitermakestheassumption

$
CG





CG,i.e.thegravitationalfield

ishomogeneousoverthevolumeoftheobject.Thisapproximationisjustifiedwhen

calculatingthegravitationalforceonaspacecraftwhichissmallcomparedtoitsorbital

radiusvector,(()(CG(.Withthisassumption,wearrivebackattheexpressionfor

apointmass:





CG#



CG

However,aninhomogeneouspotentialwillalsoinduceanangularmoment.

inan

extendedobject,andthiscangenerallynotbeneglected.Inthecontinuouscase,.

isgivenby