Method and apparatus for determining spacecraft maneuvers
Abstract
Methods and apparatus are presented for spacecraft operation
in which a control problem is formulated using a control law
or steering law as a path constraint or as a dynamic constraint,
and the control problem is solved to provide a guidance
command trajectory for use in operating spacecraft control
momentum gyroscopes to guide the spacecraft from an initial
state to a desired final state.
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