This addendum to an earlier paper1 considers the possibility of obtaining a more appropriate value of the damping time constant T from the knowledge of the characteristic roots. The method used is based on postulating an exponential time function to describe the decay of spacecraft nutation. It is indicated that the present values of T are in closer agreement with those determined approximately in the previous paper.


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    Title :

    An Addendum to "The Use of a Spinning Dissipator for Attitude Stabilization of Earth-Orbiting Satellites"


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    Publication date :

    1974-01-01


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    303453 byte




    Type of media :

    Article (Journal)


    Type of material :

    Electronic Resource


    Language :

    English