Dynamics and stability of a freely precessing spacecraft containing a nutation damper

Journal of Guidance, Control, and Dynamics

Volumn 19, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 297-304

  Chang, C O ^a,c   Liu, L Z ^a,c   Alfriend, K T ^b,d  

^a NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b NAVAL POSTGRADUATE SCHOOL   (United States)

^c Department of Mechanical Engineering

^d Code SP ^*

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; DAMPING; DYNAMICS; EIGENVALUES AND EIGENFUNCTIONS; EQUATIONS OF MOTION; GRAPHIC METHODS; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS; POSITION CONTROL; STABILITY CRITERIA; STABILIZATION; SYSTEM STABILITY; VECTORS;

INERTIALLY SYMMETRIC SPINNING SPACECRAFT; NUTATION DAMPER;

SPACECRAFT;

EID: 0030105745     PISSN: 07315090     EISSN: 15333884     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2514/3.21618     Document Type: Article

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