NASA Technical Reports Server (NTRS) : The pdf

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The Microwave Anisotropy Probe mission is designed to produce a map of the cosmic microwave background radiation over the entire celestial sphere by executing a fast spin and a slow precession of its spin axis about the Sun line to obtain a highly interconnected set of measurements. The spacecraft attitude is sensed and controlled using an Inertial Reference Unit, two Autonomous Star Trackers, a Digital Sun Sensor, twelve Coarse Sun Sensors, three Reaction Wheel Assemblies, and a propulsion system. This paper describes the design of the attitude control system that carries out this mission and presents some early flight experience

• Creator/s: NASA Technical Reports Server (NTRS
• Date: 1/1/2002
• Year: 2002
• Book Topics/Themes: NASA Technical Reports Server (NTRS), SATELLITE ATTITUDE CONTROL, CONTROL SYSTEMS DESIGN, MICROWAVE PROBES, SATELLITE INSTRUMENTS, PROPULSION SYSTEM CONFIGURATIONS, SOLAR SENSORS, STAR TRACKERS, Markley, F. Landis, Andrews, Stephen F., ODonnell, James R., Jr., Ward, David K., Ericsson, Aprille J

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