current attitude and specification of a desired attitude. Before and during attitude control can be performed, spacecraft attitude determination must be...
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and celestial mechanics). It cannot be reduced to simply attitude control; real spacecraft do not have steering wheels or tillers like airplanes or ships...
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Rotation formalisms in three dimensions (redirect from Attitude representations)
Addison–Wesley. ISBN 0-201-02918-9. Wertz, James R. (1980). Spacecraft Attitude Determination and Control. D. Reidel. ISBN 90-277-1204-2. Schmidt, J.; Niemann...
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Markley, F. L. and Crassidis, J. L. Fundamentals of Spacecraft Attitude Determination and Control, Springer 2014 Libbus, B. and Simons, G. and Yao, Y. Rotating...
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the movement of vehicles, especially, automobiles, ships, aircraft, and spacecraft. In many cases these functions can be performed by trained humans. However...
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[citation needed] The attitude determination and control subsystem (ADCS) is used to change the attitude (orientation) of the spacecraft. There are some external...
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the mission profile. Spacecraft subsystems are mounted in the satellite bus and may include attitude determination and control (variously called ADAC...
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Triad method (category Spacecraft attitude control)
represented the state of practice in spacecraft attitude determination before the advent of Wahba's problem and its several optimal solutions. Covariance...
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Star tracker (category Spacecraft attitude control)
databases are used to determine spacecraft orientation. A typical star catalogue for high-fidelity attitude determination is originated from a standard...
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Landis Markley and John L. Crassidis, Chapter 3.3, "Attitude Dynamics," p. 89; Fundamentals of Spacecraft Attitude Determination and Control, Springer Technology...
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Orbital Mechanics for Engineering Students (category Spacecraft attitude control)
rigid body dynamics, rocket vehicle dynamics, and attitude control. Control theory and spacecraft control systems are less thoroughly covered. The textbook...
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Uncrewed spacecraft or robotic spacecraft are spacecraft without people on board. Uncrewed spacecraft may have varying levels of autonomy from human input...
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Astrionics (category Spacecraft components)
systems on-board a spacecraft are embedded systems and include attitude determination and control, communications, command and telemetry, and computer systems...
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Alouette 1 (redirect from Alouette spacecraft)
(1978), "Appendix 1", in Wertz, James R. (ed.), Spacecraft Attitude Determination and Control, Astrophysics and Space Science Library, vol. 73, Dordrecht,...
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orientation. For fine attitude control, the S-band antenna feed was mounted slightly off-axis. This offset feed combined with the spacecraft spin introduced...
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physicist and aerospace engineer, whose work contributed significantly to spacecraft attitude determination. In 1977 he joined the Attitude Systems Operation...
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Magnetorquer (category Spacecraft attitude control)
torquer (also known as a torque rod) is a satellite system for attitude control, detumbling, and stabilization built from electromagnetic coils. The magnetorquer...
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LituanicaSAT-1 (category Spacecraft launched in 2014)
mode of the satellite, monitoring and control of energy resources, control of attitude determination sub-system and performance of telecommands received...
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Solar sail (category Spacecraft attitude control)
from rollers and held out by centrifugal forces as it rotated. The spacecraft's attitude and direction were to be completely controlled by changing the...
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command to the spacecraft. All booster technicians were employed at the Marshall Space Flight Center and reported to JSC for the launches. Control officer The...
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Spacecraft with Thrust, Relnav, Attitude and Crosslink (or FASTRAC) is a pair of nanosatellites (respectively named Sara-Lily and Emma) developed and...
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NASA Deep Space Network (category NASA radio communications and spacecraft tracking facilities)
troubled spacecraft may be forced to use less than its normal transmitter power, attitude control problems may preclude the use of high-gain antennas, and recovering...
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fired at perigee. Attitude determination and control used sun pulse and IR Earth sensor data in the telemetry to determine the spacecraft orientation. The...
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FreeFlyer (category Official website different in Wikidata and Wikipedia)
Automated Flight Dynamics Product Generation for the EOS AM-1 Spacecraft. Spacecraft Ground Control and Data Systems (SCD 2). CiteSeerX 10.1.1.119.5197. Close...
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High Energy Transient Explorer 1 (category Spacecraft launched in 1996)
Virginia. AeroAstro was responsible for the spacecraft bus, including power, communications, attitude control, and computers. The instrument complement for...
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Suomi NPP (category Spacecraft launched in 2011)
of ICESat and CloudSat heritage. The spacecraft consists of an aluminum honeycomb structure. The ADCS (Attitude Determination and Control Subsystem)...
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Ranger 9 (category Spacecraft launched in 1965)
trajectory and to transmit high-resolution photographs of the lunar surface during the final minutes of flight up to impact. The spacecraft carried six...
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Yo-yo de-spin (category Spacecraft propulsion)
report). NASA. 1962. D-608. Scott R. Starin and John Eterno (January 2011). "Attitude Determination and Control Systems" (PDF). NASA. "General Description...
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The spacecraft were manufactured by Astrium of Germany, using its "Flexbus" platform. The microwave RF systems, and attitude determination and control system...
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Quaternion estimator algorithm (category Spacecraft attitude control)
significantly faster and reliable in practical applications, and it is used for attitude determination problem in fields such as robotics and avionics. Wahba's...
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