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Spacecraft EngineeringGuidance, navigation and control

Guidance, navigation and control

Stub

Knowing where you are, where you point, and how to change either.

Scope

  • Attitude determination: star trackers, sun sensors, IMUs, magnetometers
  • Attitude control: reaction wheels, CMGs, magnetorquers, thrusters
  • Attitude representations and estimation filters
  • Orbit determination and autonomous navigation
  • Momentum management and wheel desaturation

Notes

Nothing written here yet. Working notes go in Research and Learning Lab; anything that becomes durable is promoted onto this page.

References

To be added as the topic is worked through.

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