Design techniques are presented which exploit environmental torques for attitude control and determination of spin stabilized satellites. The techniques are applicable to satellite missions where the dominant environmental torques are well understood and lend themselves to accurate analytical modeling. The techniques were applied to the Particles and Fields subsatellites of the Apollo 15 and 16 spacecraft and the flight results show good agreement with the attitude determination estimates obtained.
Exploiting environmental torques for attitude control and determination of spin stabilized satellites
1974-01-01
Miscellaneous
No indication
English
Torques and attitude sensing in spin-stabilized synchronous satellites
Engineering Index Backfile | 1964
|Spin-Stabilized Spacecrafts: Analytical Attitude Propagation Using Magnetic Torques
BASE | 2009
|Attitude Determination for Spin Stabilized Satellites from GPS Interferometry
British Library Conference Proceedings | 1997
|Command laws for magnetic attitude control of spin-stabilized earth satellites
Engineering Index Backfile | 1967
|