METHOD AND DEVICE FOR CONTROLLING ATTITUDE OF A SPACECRAFT

    公开(公告)号:US20180072435A1

    公开(公告)日:2018-03-15

    申请号:US15563271

    申请日:2016-03-31

    CPC classification number: B64G1/283 B64G1/244 B64G1/26 B64G1/286 B64G2001/245

    Abstract: A method of controlling the attitude of a spacecraft in spinning around itself with a non-zero total angular momentum HTOT. The spacecraft includes a set of inertia flywheels configured to form an internal angular momentum HACT. The axis of the total angular momentum HTOT is aligned with a principal axis of inertia of the spacecraft, in the course of which the inertia flywheels are controlled to form an internal angular momentum HACT. The following expression, in which J is the inertia matrix of the spacecraft: Hact×J−1(HtotJ−1Htot) is negative if the principal axis of inertia targeted is the axis of maximum inertia of the spacecraft and is positive if the principal axis inertia targeted is the axis of minimum inertia of the spacecraft.

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