Tag: attitude maneuver
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Spacecraft Control Toolbox To The Moon
Today, I will discuss two functions in release 2020.1 of the Spacecraft Control Toolbox (SCT) which can be used to get your spacecraft into a lunar orbit. They are LunarTargeting.m and LunarMissionControl.m. They are demonstrated together in the script LunarMission.m. LunarTargeting.m produces a transfer orbit that starts at a Low Earth Orbit (LEO) altitude and…
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Attitude Maneuvers with the CubeSat Control System
The CubeSat control system is designed to work with either thrusters or reaction wheels. It has a number of handy built in maneuver modes such as pointing at the sun, nadir pointing or pointing at a specific latitude and longitude on the ground. Here is the spacecraft shown in the VisualCommander interface. The movie in…