A three-axis star-pointing attitude control system has been developed for the Skylark sounding rocket. The system uses a simple strap-down inertial system to carry out precision manoeuvres to locate the target star, starting from an initial moon-pointing orientation. The star sensor is capable of providing adequate error information for stars down to visual magnitude 5. (Author)


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    Title :

    A Star-Pointing Attitude Control System for Skylark


    Contributors:

    Publication date :

    1971


    Size :

    25 pages


    Type of media :

    Report


    Type of material :

    No indication


    Language :

    English