Slewing maneuvers of gyrostat spacecraft
Abstract
The theoretical basis is established for a procedure intended to be employed to produce slewing motions of spacecraft belonging to a large class of gyrostats. A control scheme involving this procedure is introduced, and computer solutions of equations of motion are performed to test the practicality of the slewing scheme.
- Publication:
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Journal of the Astronautical Sciences
- Pub Date:
- September 1980
- Bibcode:
- 1980JAnSc..28..267C
- Keywords:
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- Gyroscopes;
- Slewing;
- Spacecraft Control;
- Spacecraft Maneuvers;
- Angular Momentum;
- Equations Of Motion;
- Gimbals;
- Astrodynamics