Attitude Determination from Specular, and Diffuse Reflection by Cylindrical Artificial Satellites

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Jul 1963

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SAO Special Report #127 (1963)

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Formulas for attitude determination from optical observations are presented for cylindrical artificial satellites with specular reflection. The results allow attitude determination from the observed topocentric coordinates of the reflection flashes and the direction of the sun. Precise knowledge of the orbital data is not needed, and in many cases no expensive optical instruments are necessary to obtain the information on attitude. For diffuse reflecting cylinders, the formulaa for the intensity as a function of arbitrary angles of illumination and observation is derived and applied to numerical computations of a tumbling cylinder.

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