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This paper presents the study of axial gyrostats dynamics. The gyrostat is composed of two rigid bodies: an asymmetric platform and an axisymmetric rotor aligned with the platform principal axis. The paper discusses three types of gyrostats: oblate, prolate, and intermediate. Rotation of the rotor relative to the platform provides a source of small internal angular momentum and does not affect the moment of inertia tensor of the gyrostat. The dynamics of gyrostats without external torque is considered. The dynamics is described by using ordinary differential equations with Andoyer–Deprit canonical variables. For undisturbed motion, when the internal moment is equal to zero, the stationary solutions are found, and their stability is studied. General analytical solutions in terms of elliptic functions are also obtained. These results can be interpreted as the development of the classical Euler case for a solid, when to one degree of freedom—the relative rotation of bodies—is added. For disturbed motion of the gyrostats, when there is a system with slowly varying parameters, the adiabatic invariants are obtained in terms of complete elliptic integrals, which are approximately equal to the first integrals of the disturbed system. The adiabatic invariants remain approximately constant along a trajectory for long time intervals during which the parameter changes considerably. The results of the study can be useful for the analysis of dynamics of dual-spin spacecraft and for studying a chaotic behavior of the spacecraft.

This paper presents the study of behavior of the axial dual-spin spacecraft. The spacecraft is composed of two rigid bodies: an asymmetric platform and an axisymmetric rotor aligned with the platform principal axis. Such aircraft is often called gyrostat. The paper discusses three types of gyrostats: oblate, prolate and intermediate. The rotor can rotate freely relative of the platform and an internal angular momentum is equal to zero. We consider the dynamics of gyrostats in the absence of external torque. The dynamics is described by ordinary differential equations in the Andoyer-Deprit canonical variables. The stationary solutions are found and studied their stability. Also we obtain general exact analytical solutions in terms of elliptic functions. These results can be interpreted as the development of the classical Euler case for a solid, when added to one degree of freedom - the relative rotation of bodies. Results of the study can be useful for the analysis of dynamics of dual-spin spacecrafts and for studying the chaotic behavior of the spacecrafts.

The free three-dimensional motion of an unbalanced gyrostat about the centre of mass is considered. The perturbed Hamiltonian for the case of small dynamical asymmetry of the rotor is written in Andoyer–Deprit canonical variables. The structure of the phase space of the unperturbed system is analysed, six forms of possible phase portraits are identified, and the equations of the phase trajectories are found analytically. Explicit analytical time dependences of the Andoyer–Deprit variables corresponding to heteroclinic orbits are obtained for all the phase portrait forms. The Melnikov function of the perturbed system is written for heteroclinic separatrix orbits using the analytical solutions obtained, and the presence of simple zeros is shown numerically. This provides evidence of intersections of the stable and unstable manifolds of the hyperbolic points and chaotization of the motion. Illustrations of chaotic modes of motion of the unbalanced gyrostat are presented using Poincaré sections.