The spacecraft nutation damping performance claimed as a result of the analysis in a recent paper by Sen is invalid because the system equations are incorrect. This correspondence points out some serious omissions in Sen's equations and presents the correct equations whose solution shows that Sen's stabilizer is actually destabilizing.
Comments on "The Use of a Spinning Dissipator for Attitude Stabilization of Earth-Orbiting Satellites"
IEEE Transactions on Aerospace and Electronic Systems ; AES-10 , 6 ; 902-903
1974-11-01
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The use of a spinning dissipator for attitude stabilization of earth-orbiting satellites
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