Motion of a Load along a Cable Fastened to a Two-Body-Tethered Spacecraft.

Examines the motion of a system that represents an elongated space station considered as a system of two material points connected by a weightless rod and load hat can freely move along a cable. Effect of gravitation on the relative motion of the load; Points to consider if the inhomogeneity of the of the gravitational field is neglected; Establishment of the differentiating formulas with respect to time; Determination of the phase portrait of relative motion.