All-propulsion design of the drag-free and attitude control of the European satellite GOCE

Acta Astronautica

Volumn 64, Issue 2-3, 2009, Pages 325-344

  Canuto, Enrico ^a   Massotti, Luca ^b  

^a POLITECNICO DI TORINO   (Italy)

^b ESA Earth Observation Programmes   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Digital control; Drag free control; Satellite attitude

Indexed keywords

ATTITUDE CONTROL; CODES (SYMBOLS); DIGITAL CONTROL SYSTEMS; DRAG; EXTRACTIVE METALLURGY; GRAVITATION; GRAVITATIONAL EFFECTS; NAVIGATION; OCEANOGRAPHY; PROPULSION; SATELLITE OBSERVATORIES; SATELLITES; SPACECRAFT; SPATIAL VARIABLES CONTROL; TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

AND ENVIRONMENTS; CODE DEVELOPMENTS; CONTROL ALGORITHMS; CONTROL UNITS; DIGITAL CONTROL; DISCRETE-TIME MODELS; EARTH'S GRAVITY FIELDS; EUROPEANS; FREE CONTROLS; GRADIOMETER; GRAVITATIONAL FORCES; GRAVITY FIELDS; GRAVITY GRADIOMETRY; HIGH ACCURACIES; LOCAL ORBITALS; MEASUREMENT BANDWIDTHS; OCEAN CIRCULATIONS; PRECISE ORBIT DETERMINATIONS; PRELIMINARY MODELS; PROPULSION COMMANDS; REFERENCE FRAMES; SATELLITE ATTITUDE; SIMULATED RESULTS; SPACE COMMUNITIES; SPACECRAFT ATTITUDES; SPATIAL RESOLUTIONS;

CONTROL SYSTEMS;

EID: 56349169856     PISSN: 00945765     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.actaastro.2008.07.017     Document Type: Article

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