Development of a closed-loop strap down attitude system for an ultrahigh altitude flight experiment

35th Aerospace Sciences Meeting and Exhibit

Volumn , Issue , 1997, Pages

  Whitmore, Stephen A ^a   Fife, Mike ^b   Brashear, Logan ^c  

^a NASA DRYDEN FLIGHT RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^b MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AEROSPACE ENGINEERING; COMMERCIAL VEHICLES; COSTS; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD EFFECTS; INERTIAL NAVIGATION SYSTEMS; MAGNETIC FIELDS; MAGNETISM; NASA; NAVIGATION SYSTEMS;

FLIGHT EXPERIMENTS; FLIGHT RESEARCH; INERTIAL VELOCITY; MISSION REQUIREMENTS; MONTE CARLO ANALYSIS; REFERENCE MODELING; SYSTEMS RESEARCH; VECTOR MEASUREMENTS;

MAGNETIC LEVITATION VEHICLES;

EID: 84983155098     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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