© Apress 2015
Michael Paluszek and Stephanie Thomas, MATLAB Recipes, 10.1007/978-1-4842-0559-4_12
12. Spacecraft
Michael Paluszek1 and Stephanie Thomas2
(1)Princeton, New Jersey, USA
(2)Princeton Junction, New Jersey, USA
Electronic supplementary material: The online version of this chapter (doi: 10.1007/978-1-4842-0559-4_12) contains supplementary material, which is available to authorized users.
Spacecraft
pointing control is an essential technology for all robotic and manned spacecraft. A control system consists of sensing, actuation, and the dynamics of the spacecraft itself. Spacecraft control systems are of many types, but this chapter is only concerned with three-axis pointing. Reaction wheels are used for actuation.
Reaction wheels are ...