A coning angle sensor and a sun angle sensor for use in spinning satellites
Abstract
A coning angle sensor, using a new precision sun slit, was developed for the UK6 satellite to measure the actual spin axis direction of the spacecraft with respect to body axes using the sun as an external reference. The theory and construction of this sensor are described together with a complementary inclined slit sensor which is used to measure the angle of the satellite spin axis with respect to the satellite sun line.
- Publication:
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NASA STI/Recon Technical Report N
- Pub Date:
- June 1976
- Bibcode:
- 1976STIN...7716086F
- Keywords:
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- Error Correcting Devices;
- Pointing Control Systems;
- Solar Sensors;
- Uk Satellites;
- Angles (Geometry);
- Attitude Control;
- Error Analysis;
- In-Flight Monitoring;
- Performance Tests;
- Position Errors;
- Slits;
- Launch Vehicles and Space Vehicles