Magnetometer-only attitude and rate estimates for spinning spacecraft

Astrodynamics Specialist Conference

Volumn , Issue , 2000, Pages 311-321

  Challa, M ^a   Natanson, G ^a   Ottenstein, N ^a  

^a Computer Sciences Corporation ^*  (United States)

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