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Do spin-stabilized satellites have attitude drift?
Do spin-stabilized satellites have attitude drift requiring
periodic correction? If not, why? Even inertial navigation platforms have drift. If yes, how do they correct their attitude? Thrusters? Reaction wheels? Sorry if this is a re-post; for some reason my previous attempt never made it -- Joe D. |
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Do spin-stabilized satellites have attitude drift?
I do not believe you will see what you term "attitude drift" because the
satellite is acting like a large gyroscope. Once you have spun up the satellite you have a stable spinner if you have designed your mass properties appropriately. You do need to deal with nutation (tendency to go into a flat spin) if you didn't design for absolute stability. We used thrusters on the Hughes satellites to perform attitude adjustments and nutation control. "Joe D." wrote in message news Do spin-stabilized satellites have attitude drift requiring periodic correction? If not, why? Even inertial navigation platforms have drift. If yes, how do they correct their attitude? Thrusters? Reaction wheels? Sorry if this is a re-post; for some reason my previous attempt never made it -- Joe D. |
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Do spin-stabilized satellites have attitude drift?
On 12/13/05 9:36 AM, in article ,
"Joe D." wrote: Do spin-stabilized satellites have attitude drift requiring periodic correction? Generally, yes. Solar pressure applies a torque, and the satellite spin axis changes as the result of precession. How often depends on the asymmetry that is causing the torque, the mass properties, and the angular momentum of the spin. If yes, how do they correct their attitude? Thrusters? Most I have seen/operated used thrusters, fired 90 degrees out of phase to the spin axis error. Of the programs I have first-hand knowledge (oblate spinner with a large despun antenna platform) it was about once a month to take out about 0.1 deg error. Prolate spinners need something a lot more complicated to prevent them from going into a flat spin. Brett |
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