Development of reaction wheels housing for micro-satellites

Aircraft Engineering and Aerospace Technology

Volumn 77, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 114-121

  Yong, Sing Yeong ^a   Joshi, Sunil Chandrakant ^b  

^a MOTOROLA INC   (United States)

^b NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Artificial satellites; Computer aided design; Frequencies; Stability (control theory)

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONTROL THEORY; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; FREQUENCIES; HONEYCOMB STRUCTURES; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OPTIMIZATION; STRUCTURAL PANELS; SYSTEM STABILITY; THERMAL EXPANSION; WHEELS;

ATTITUDE CONTROL SUBSYTEM; COMPUTER NUMERICAL CONTROL; MICROSATELLITES; REACTION WHEELS;

SATELLITES;

EID: 19444365502     PISSN: 00022667     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/00022660510585947     Document Type: Article

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