The optimal collision avoidance maneuver with multiple objects in Geo

This study aims to develop a new collision avoidance strategy for geostationary spacecraft. Recently, the continuous growth of space objects is increasing the collision risk among them. In the future, it will be necessary to operate the spacecraft while avoiding much space objects. However, there is a limit of fuel loading in a spacecraft, so it will be important to save fuel consuming each collision avoidance maneuvers not to shorten spacecraft lifetime rapidly. The proposed strategy considers the following points to save fuel and extend a spacecraft lifetime as much as possible. The first point is to avoid as many objects as possible at once maneuver so that the maximum collision probability is less than 1.0 × 10^%&. The second point is to minimize fuel consumed by collision avoidance maneuvers and the next orbit maintenance maneuver. The last point is to maximize the period to keep a spacecraft in the station-keeping slot. To realize this strategy, multi-objective genetic algorithm optimizes maneuver time and maneuver vector. In the simulation, to simplify, a spacecraft avoids two approaching objects. The Spacecraft conducts collision avoidance maneuver as the East-West control maneuver and the North-South control maneuver, separately. As a result, in the case of once maneuver, collision avoidance is succeeded but the station-keeping period was too short, especially in the case of an East-West control maneuver. Therefore, it needs to conduct many maneuvers before the closest approach.