Attitude control system and star tracker performance of the wide-field infrared explorer spacecraft

Advances in the Astronautical Sciences

Volumn 105 I, Issue , 2000, Pages 723-752

  Laher, Russ ^a   Catanzarite, Joe ^a   Conrow, Tim ^a   Correll, Tom ^b   Chen, Roger ^c   Everett, Dave ^b   Shupe, David ^a   Lonsdale, Carol ^a   Hacking, Perry ^d   Gautier, Nick ^e   Lebsock, Ken ^f  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^c K and D Research   (United States)

^d Vanguard Research   (United States)

^e CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^f NORTHROP GRUMMAN CORPORATION   (United States)

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EID: 0039381663     PISSN: 00653438     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

References (7)

1. th Annual AIAA/USU Conference on Small Satellites, Logan, Utah, September 1997.
2. Buzasi, D., J. Catanzarite, R. Laher, T. Conrow, T. Gautier, David Shupe and T. Kreidl, "The Detection of Multimodal Oscillations on α UMa," Submitted to Astrophysical Journal Letters, 1999.
3. Hacking, P., T. N. Gautier, T. L. Herter, C. J. Lonsdale, D. L. Shupe, G. Stacey, H. R. Schember, B. T. Soifer, M. W. Werner, P. Graf, S. H. Moseley, and J. R. Houck, "The Wide-Field Infrared Explorer (WIRE) Mission," Proceedings of the Moriond Astrophysics Meeting on Extragalactic Astronomy in the Infrared, Moriond, France, March 1997.
4. Stoneking, E. T., "A Robust Star Acquisition Algorithm for the Wide-Field Infrared Explorer", AAS 98-367, Proceedings of the AAS/GSFC International Symposium on Space Flight Dynamics, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Maryland.
5. Hacking, P., H. Schember, T. Herter, T. N. Gautier, B. Fafaul, H. Ames, D. Everett, J. Kemp, T. Conrow, and D. Henderson, WIRE Science and Instrument Functional Requirements, Version 1.4, JPL D-13132, January 22, 1997.
6. Private communication between Russ Laher and Dick Deters of Ball Aerospace, June 3, 1999.
7. Barnes, K. C., C. M. Melhorn, and T. Phillips, "The Software Design for the Wide-Field Infrared Explorer Attitude Control System," Paper No. SSC98-VIII-2, AIAA Conference on Small Satellites, Logan, Utah, September 1998.