Acquisition, tracking and pointing control of the bifocal relay mirror spacecraft

Acta Astronautica

Volumn 53, Issue 4-10, 2003, Pages 509-519

  Romano, Marcello ^a   Agrawal, Brij N ^a  

^a NAVAL POSTGRADUATE SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EQUATIONS OF STATE; LASER BEAMS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OPTICAL SYSTEMS; OPTIMAL CONTROL SYSTEMS; SENSORS; SIMULATORS; SPACE TELESCOPES;

BIFOCAL RELAY MIRROR (BRM); EARTH CELESTIAL FRAMEWORK (ECF); STEERING MIRRORS; STRUCTURAL FLEXIBILITY;

SPACECRAFT;

EID: 1542297159     PISSN: 00945765     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0094-5765(03)80011-5     Document Type: Article

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