Use of solar pressure for the control of the orientation of a rotating spacecraft

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May 1976

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Kosmicheskie Issledovaniia, vol. 14, May-June 1976, p. 359-365. In Russian.

Mathematics

Radiation Pressure, Satellite Orientation, Satellite Rotation, Solar Radiation, Systems Stability, Angular Velocity, Asymptotic Methods, Elliptical Orbits, Equations Of Motion, Error Analysis, Harmonic Analysis, Moments Of Inertia, Operators (Mathematics)

Scientific paper

Dynamics of a spacecraft whose axis of rotation is stabilized in the direction of the sun by means of solar radiation pressure. Equations of motion are presented for the spacecraft and the possibility of damping spacecraft motion by means of nonuniform heating of the booms is examined. Attention is paid to the passive method of stabilizing the angular velocity of the spacecraft, which uses the error in tracking the solar vertical as the spacecraft moves in elliptical orbit about the sun. It is shown that as the angular velocity decreases, the accuracy and speed of the solar orientation system increase.

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