ACS Without an Attitude

• Main Authors: Hallock, Harold L. (Author), Welter, Gary (Author), Simpson, David G. (Author), Rouff, Christopher (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: London : Springer London : Imprint: Springer, 2017.
• Series: NASA Monographs in Systems and Software Engineering,
• Subjects: Computer science.; Special purpose computers.; Software engineering.; Aerospace engineering.; Astronautics.; Computer Science.; Special Purpose and Application-Based Systems.; Aerospace Technology and Astronautics.; Software Engineering.

This book de-emphasizes the formal mathematical description of spacecraft on-board attitude and orbit applications in favor of a more qualitative, concept-oriented presentation of these topics. The information presented in this book was originally given as a set of lectures in 1999 and 2000 instigat...

Table of Contents:

• Preface
• Attitude Conventions & Definitions
• General Orbit Background
• Angular Momentum and Torque
• Attitude Measurement Sensors
• Attitude Actuators
• Reference Models
• Onboard Attitude Determination
• Spacecraft State Estimation more Broadly
• Onboard Orbit Computations
• Control Laws: General Qualities
• Control Laws: Attitude Applications
• Mission Characteristics
• Appendix A: Time Measurement Systems
• Appendix B:Variation on Deriving the Kalman Gain
• Index.