The destabilizing effect of yaw or Magnus-type moments on the angle- of-attack behavior of spinning missiles is well known to the missile designer. Yaw moments can also have a destabilizing (or stabilizing) effect on the attitude or coning motion of spinning spacecraft. The analogy might not be readily apparent because of the difference between the angle of attack of a spinning missile in atmospheric flight and the coning angle of spin-stabilized spacecraft. A concise treatment of the dynamics associated with coning instabilities is presented, and illustrative examples of classical missile and spacecraft coning instabilities are reviewed.
Missile and Spacecraft Coning Instabilities
1998
14 pages
Report
Keine Angabe
Englisch
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