• DocumentCode
    1122711
  • Title

    Comments on "The Use of a Spinning Dissipator for Attitude Stabilization of Earth-Orbiting Satellites"

  • Author

    Grasshoff, L.H.

  • Author_Institution
    Hughes Aircraft Company Los Angeles, Calif. 90019
  • Issue
    6
  • fYear
    1974
  • Firstpage
    902
  • Lastpage
    903
  • Abstract
    The spacecraft nutation damping performance claimed as a result of the analysis in a recent paper by Sen is invalid because the system equations are incorrect. This correspondence points out some serious omissions in Sen´s equations and presents the correct equations whose solution shows that Sen´s stabilizer is actually destabilizing.
  • Keywords
    Aerospace and electronic systems; Angular velocity; Damping; Equations; Performance analysis; Satellites; Space vehicles; Spinning; Torque; Wheels;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Journal_Title
    Aerospace and Electronic Systems, IEEE Transactions on
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • ISSN
    0018-9251
  • Type

    jour

  • DOI
    10.1109/TAES.1974.307907
  • Filename
    4101340