摘要

This paper investigates fuel-optimal impulsive reconfiguration of formation- flying satellites near circular reference orbit. The author's previous work is extended to the in-plane reconfiguration, as well as reconfigurations between different formation configurations. Analytical solutions are derived and their optimality is problem dependent. A novel kind of fuel-optimal solutions, whose associated primer vector magnitude is identically equal to 1, has been obtained for reconfigurations with nonoptimal analytical solutions. Numerical examples are given to illustrate and validate the obtained results.