Impulsive control for angular momentum management of tumbling spacecraft

Acta Astronautica

Volumn 60, Issue 10-11, 2007, Pages 810-819

  Yoshikawa, Shoji ^a   Yamada, Katsuhiko ^b  

^a MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION   (Japan)

^b NAGOYA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NUMERICAL METHODS; POSITION MEASUREMENT; ROBOTIC ARMS; SPACECRAFT;

ANGULAR MOMENTUM CONTROL; ROTATIONAL MOTION; TARGET SPACECRAFT; TUMBLING SPACECRAFT;

AEROSPACE ENGINEERING;

EID: 33847166559     PISSN: 00945765     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.actaastro.2006.10.012     Document Type: Article

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