On periodic motions of a symmetrical satellite in an orbit with small eccentricity in the case of multiple combinational resonance of the third and fourth orders

The motion of a near-autonomous time-periodic two-degree-of-freedom Hamiltonian system in the vicinity of a linearly stable trivial equilibrium is considered. The values of the problem parameters are supposed to be such that the system implements both a double combinational third-order resonance and a fourth-order resonance. The problem of existence and stability of resonant periodic motions of the system is considered. The study is carried out using as an example the problem of the motion of a dynamically symmetric satellite (a rigid body) relative to the center of mass in the central Newtonian gravitational field in an elliptical orbit with small eccentricity. The satellite's periodic motions generated from its stationary rotations in a circular orbit (hyperboloidal and conical precessions) for the resonant values of the parameters are considered as unperturbed ones. The normalization of the Hamiltonian functions of perturbed motion is performed, and the equilibrium positions of approximate (model) systems are determined. The corresponding resonant periodic motions of the satellite in the vicinity of these unperturbed motions are obtained by the Poincare method, and their geometric interpretation is given. The unstable periodic motions and the motions that are stable for the majority (in the sense of Lebesgue measure) of the initial conditions and formally stable are revealed.