Moon Tracking Attitude Control Experiment of a Bias Momentum Micro Satellite “μ-LabSat”

Fuyuto TERUI; Shinichi KIMURA; Yasufumi NAGAI; Hiroshi YAMAMOTO; Keisuke YOSHIHARA; Toru YAMAMOTO; Shinichi NAKASUKA

doi:10.2322/tjsass.48.28

Fuyuto TERUI, Shinichi KIMURA, Yasufumi NAGAI, Hiroshi YAMAMOTO, Keisuke YOSHIHARA, Toru YAMAMOTO, Shinichi NAKASUKA

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Keywords: Satellite, Control, Applications, Algorithms, Nonlinearities

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2005 Volume 48 Issue 159 Pages 28-33

DOI https://doi.org/10.2322/tjsass.48.28

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Abstract

A micro-piggyback satellite, “μ-LabSat”, was launched by an H-IIA rocket on 14 December 2002. μ-LabSat is a bias momentum micro-satellite with two wheels, a configuration that is not normally capable of three-axis attitude maneuvers. This paper describes an algorithm that has been developed to enable such maneuvers and presents the results of its evaluation by numerical simulation and in-orbit experiment.

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