Active damping of satellite nutation
US4732354A · kind A · utility
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| Filing date | Apr 10, 1986 |
| Grant date | Mar 22, 1988 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Apr 10, 2006 |
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- Technology area (CPC B)Performing Operations; Transporting
- CPC primaryB64G1/369
- WIPO fieldTransport
- WIPO sectorMechanical engineering
Abstract
For controlling nutation of a three-axis stabilized satellite, the angular speed of a solar panel carried by the satellite is selectively and temporarily varied about an average value for modifying the inertia cross-product thereof and generating an angular momentum transverse to the angular momentum present in said body with a phase with respect to the nutation motion which tends to decrease the amplitude of the nutation motion.
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