CONTOUR phasing orbits: Attitude determination & control concepts and flight results

Advances in the Astronautical Sciences

Volumn 114, Issue SUPPL., 2003, Pages 759-774

  Van der Ha, Jozef ^a   Rogers, Gabe ^a   Dellinger, Wayne ^a   Stratton, James ^a  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY APPLIED PHYSICS LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; CONTROL SYSTEMS; LAUNCHING; ORBITS; ROCKET ENGINES; SENSORS; SPACECRAFT; SPACECRAFT PROPULSION;

EARTH-SUN SENSORS (ESS); SOLID ROCKET MOTORS (SRM);

SPACE FLIGHT;

EID: 1542299719     PISSN: 00653438     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

References (6)

1. D.W. Dunham et al., "Design and Implementation of CONTOUR'S Phasing Orbits", AAS/AIAA Space Flight Mechanics Meeting, Ponce, Puerto Rico, February 9-13, 2003, Paper AAS 03-208.
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3. A. S. Fagg, & L. van Holtz, "Application of Simplified Spin Axis Attitude Determination Techniques to ESA Telecom Satellites, Proceedings of the CNES Symposium on 'Space Dynamics for Geostationary Satellites', Cepadues Editions, Toulouse, France, October 1985, pp. 219-226.
4. M. D. Shuster, "Efficient Algorithms for Spin-Axis Attitude Estimation", The Journal of the Astronautical Sciences, Vol. XXXI, April-June 1983, pp. 237-249.
5. J. R. Wertz (Editor), Spacecraft Attitude Determination and Control, Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1978, Section 19.3.
6. Stratton, J., Engelbracht, C., Deboer, J., and J. Morris, "Description of the Liquid Propulsion System of the Comet Nucleus Tour Spacecraft", Paper AIAA-2001-3391.