Second order poincare' map to study dynamical behavior of nonsymmetrical gyrostat satellite

The second order poincare' map is described and used for investigation of the dynamical behavior of a gyrostat satellite. The normalized attitudinal equations of motion for a typical non-symmetric gyrostat satellite are considered. For different sets of initial conditions the equations simulated by Runge-Kutta method. The poincare' section is used to dimension reduction of system phase space. By this map the dimension reduced from six to five. Using secondary map the dimension of phase space can be reduced to four and considering symmetry of phase space the final space has two dimensions that is presentable at the plane. Bifurcation in the attitudinal behavior can be demonstrated easily by the derived map.