Procedures for achieving attitude control of single-body and multibody, tethered spacecraft are examined. The design considerations for attitude control and the generation of control torques are described. Two dimensional tether attach point motion is utilized to produce torque about two axes and the third axis is controlled with either a control moment gyro or a reaction wheel. The ability to perform attitude control of a tethered spacecraft is evaluated in the Kinetic Isolation Tether Experiment (KITE). It is observed that the KITE/SPARTAN design bandwidth is adequate to fully utilize the capability of attitude sensors with accuracies in the 1-arcsec range.


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    Title :

    Attitude control of tethered spacecraft


    Contributors:
    Lemke, L. G. (author) / Powell, J. D. (author) / He, X. (author)

    Publication date :

    1986-09-01


    Type of media :

    Conference paper


    Type of material :

    No indication


    Language :

    English




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