Control-structure interaction mitigation for NASA's Gateway

The Gateway is an advanced National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) concept for a multi-module space station to be placed in a near rectilinear halo orbit around the Moon sometime in the next decade. The first module of the Gateway is known as the Power and Propulsion Element (PPE), and is set to launch in 2022. As the station's first module, the PPE will be responsible for providing the Gateway with "electrical power, communications, attitude control, orbit maintenance, and the ability to change orbits" [16]. Control of the Gateway represents a complicated and unique control problem due to the space-craft's status as a large, multi-modular spacecraft; it will have multiple dominant structural modes from its comprising elements: modules, external payloads, solar arrays, a robotic arm, visiting spacecraft, etc [31]. Other spacecraft in this class include the Space Shuttle, the Mir space station, and the International Space Station (ISS).

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Master

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Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics

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Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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2019

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• Reynolds, Daniel Christopher.

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• Kerri Cahoy and Ravi Gondhalekar.

• Aeronautics and Astronautics.

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