Design of the reaction wheel attitude control system for the Cassini spacecraft

Advances in the Astronautical Sciences

Volumn 112 I, Issue , 2002, Pages 303-315

  Macala, Glenn A ^a  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONTROL SYSTEM SYNTHESIS; DISCRETE TIME CONTROL SYSTEMS; GRAVITY WAVES; INTERPLANETARY FLIGHT; ORBITS; POSITION CONTROL; REMOTE SENSING; SPACE PROBES; TWO TERM CONTROL SYSTEMS; VEHICLE WHEELS;

ATTITUDE CONTROL; CASSINI AIRCRAFT; REACTION CONTROL THRUSTERS; REACTION WHEEL ASSEMBLY; SATURN MISSION;

INTERPLANETARY SPACECRAFT;

EID: 0036914597     PISSN: 00653438     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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