A study has been conducted to determine the articulated-pointing requirements of a suite of instruments carried by the NASA Space Station, and define a pointing system architecture accomodating those requirements. It is found that these pointing requirements are sufficiently exacting, and the Space Station's disturbance environment sufficiently severe, to preclude the successful use of a conventional gimbal-pointing system; a gimbaled system incorporating an isolation stage is judged capable of furnishing the requisite levels of pointing performance.


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    Title :

    NASA Office of Space Sciences and Applications study on Space Station attached payload pointing


    Contributors:
    Laskin, R. A. (author) / Estus, J. M. (author) / Lin, Y. H. (author) / Spanos, J. T. (author) / Satter, C. M. (author)

    Conference:

    AIAA Guidance, Navigation and Control Conference ; 1988 ; Minneapolis, MN, United States


    Publication date :

    1988-01-01


    Type of media :

    Conference paper


    Type of material :

    No indication


    Language :

    English






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