A method of spacecraft attitude control
- Paper ID
IAF-66-148
- author
- company
Instrumentation Laboratory, MIT
- country
U.S.A.
- year
1966
- abstract
This paper describes a method of spacecraft attitude control that uses rotation about a single inertially fixed axis to change the orientation of the vehicle. The following topics are discussed (Fig. 1): (1) The near-optimality of maneuver by a single-axis rotation. (2) The computation of control signals to achieve a single-axis maneuver. (3) Avoiding gimbal lock in a vehicle using three-gimbal inertial-platform isolation.