An efficient momentum dumping method for near equatorial orbit satellites

• المؤلف الرئيسي: Tissera, Mihindukulasooriya Sheral Crescent
• مؤلفون آخرون: Ling Keck Voon
• التنسيق: Theses and Dissertations
• اللغة: English
• منشور في: 2017
• الموضوعات: DRNTU::Engineering::Electrical and electronic engineering::Microelectromechanical systems; DRNTU::Engineering::Electrical and electronic engineering::Control and instrumentation::Control engineering; DRNTU::Engineering::Electrical and electronic engineering::Computer hardware, software and systems
• الوصول للمادة أونلاين: http://hdl.handle.net/10356/69898
• المؤسسة: Nanyang Technological University

In this research, the improvement of the reaction wheel angular momentum dumping efficiency for a near equatorial orbit satellite through a new Sun-pointing strategy will be presented. Reaction wheels suffer from angular momentum saturation (i.e. when the speed of the reaction wheel reaches its...