Large antenna control methods: Current status and future trends
Abstract
Current methods for control of large antennas, as well as future trends required for improved performance are addressed. Some of the target missions in which these methods would be used are: the Land Mobile Satellite System (LMSS) for communications; the Satellite Surveillance (SSS) for aircraft traffic control; the orbiting Very Long Baseline Interferometer (VLBI), or QUASAT, for radio astronomy; and the Large Deployable Reflector (LDR) for IR and submillimeter astronomy.
- Publication:
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In NASA. Langley Research Center Large Space Antenna Systems Technol
- Pub Date:
- April 1985
- Bibcode:
- 1985lsas.rept..547R
- Keywords:
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- Antenna Design;
- Attitude Control;
- Control Theory;
- Controllers;
- Spacecraft Antennas;
- Actuators;
- Air Traffic Control;
- Communication Satellites;
- Large Deployable Reflector;
- Quasat;
- Radio Astronomy;
- Reflectors;
- Spaceborne Astronomy;
- Launch Vehicles and Space Vehicles