Three-Axis Attitude Control Simulators for Bifocal Relay Mirror Spacecraft

Advances in the Astronautical Sciences

Volumn 115, Issue SUPPL., 2003, Pages 168-181

  Agrawal, Brij N ^a   Romano, Marcello ^a   Martinez, Ty ^a  

^a AIR FORCE RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATTITUDE CONTROL SIMULATORS; BIFOCAL RELAY MIRROR SPACECRAFT; OPTICAL PAYLOAD; SPACECRAFT SIMULATOR; STAR SENSOR;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONTROL SYSTEM ANALYSIS; FLIGHT DYNAMICS; IMAGING SYSTEMS; JITTER; LASER BEAMS; MAGNETOMETERS; OPTICAL COMMUNICATION; SATELLITES; TORSIONAL STRESS; VIDEO CAMERAS;

SPACECRAFT;

EID: 1542299625     PISSN: 00653438     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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