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.
NASA Office of Space Sciences and Applications study on Space Station attached payload pointing
AIAA Guidance, Navigation and Control Conference ; 1988 ; Minneapolis, MN, United States
1988-01-01
Conference paper
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English
Space Station Attached Payload Program Support
NTIS | 1989
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NTRS | 1989
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