The patent application relates to a system for autonomously unloading accumulated angular momentum on space craft reaction wheels in the attitude control systems with external torques generated by the interaction of spacecraft magnetic dipoles with the earth's magnetic field.
Spacecraft Closed Loop Three-Axis Momentum Unloading System
1975
8 pages
Report
Keine Angabe
Englisch
Unmanned Spacecraft , Astronautics , Government Inventions for Licensing , Satellite attitude , Attitude control systems , Reaction control systems , Angular momentum , Patents , Torque , Closed loop systems , Momentum transfer , Magnetic fields , Patent applications , Reaction wheels , PAT-CL-343-793