current attitude and specification of a desired attitude. Before and during attitude control can be performed, spacecraft attitude determination must be...

[citation needed] The attitude determination and control subsystem (ADCS) is used to change the attitude (orientation) of the spacecraft. There are some external...

and celestial mechanics). It cannot be reduced to simply attitude control; real spacecraft do not have steering wheels or tillers like airplanes or ships...

the mission profile. Spacecraft subsystems are mounted in the satellite bus and may include attitude determination and control (variously called ADAC...

command to the spacecraft. All booster technicians were employed at the Marshall Space Flight Center and reported to JSC for the launches. Control officer The...

orientation. For fine attitude control, the S-band antenna feed was mounted slightly off-axis. This offset feed combined with the spacecraft spin introduced...

Markley, F. L. and Crassidis, J. L. Fundamentals of Spacecraft Attitude Determination and Control, Springer 2014 Libbus, B. and Simons, G. and Yao, Y. Rotating...

represented the state of practice in spacecraft attitude determination before the advent of Wahba's problem. and its several optimal solutions. Covariance...

(1978), "Appendix 1", in Wertz, James R. (ed.), Spacecraft Attitude Determination and Control, Astrophysics and Space Science Library, vol. 73, Dordrecht,...

modifications were made to the spacecraft based on lessons learned from the operations of Helios-A. The small engines used for attitude control were improved. Changes...

Addison–Wesley. ISBN 0-201-02918-9. Wertz, James R. (1980). Spacecraft Attitude Determination and Control. D. Reidel. ISBN 90-277-1204-2. Schmidt, J.; Niemann...

vector") as well as its attitude.[citation needed] Control refers to the manipulation of the forces, by way of steering controls, thrusters, etc., needed...

fired at perigee. Attitude determination and control used sun pulse and IR Earth sensor data in the telemetry to determine the spacecraft orientation. The...

Uncrewed spacecraft or robotic spacecraft are spacecraft without people on board. Uncrewed spacecraft may have varying levels of autonomy from human input...

Landis Markley and John L. Crassidis, Chapter 3.3, "Attitude Dynamics," p. 89; Fundamentals of Spacecraft Attitude Determination and Control, Springer Technology...

torquer (also known as a torque rod) is a satellite system for attitude control, detumbling, and stabilization built from electromagnetic coils. The magnetorquer...

systems on-board a spacecraft are embedded systems and include attitude determination and control, communications, command and telemetry, and computer systems...

Newman, Clark P.; et al. (2018). Stationkeeping, orbit determination, and attitude control for spacecraft in near rectilinear halo orbits. AAS/AIAA Astrodynamics...

rigid body dynamics, rocket vehicle dynamics, and attitude control. Control theory and spacecraft control systems are less thoroughly covered. The textbook...

individual spacecraft missions and off-line processors for carrying out spacecraft data archival, analysis and orbit determination. Communication Control facility...

safely while spinning, must be detumbled. Systems that perform attitude determination and control include reaction wheels, magnetorquers, thrusters, star trackers...

databases are used to determine spacecraft orientation. A typical star catalogue for high-fidelity attitude determination is originated from a standard...

from rollers and held out by centrifugal forces as it rotated. The spacecraft's attitude and direction were to be completely controlled by changing the...

shield fixed to the spacecraft body, and is used for major burns. For control of the vehicle's orientation (attitude control) and to perform trajectory...

Spacecraft with Thrust, Relnav, Attitude and Crosslink (or FASTRAC) is a pair of nanosatellites (respectively named Sara-Lily and Emma) developed and...

troubled spacecraft may be forced to use less than its normal transmitter power, attitude control problems may preclude the use of high-gain antennas, and recovering...

consists of orbital and attitude determination and control. Orbital parameters are traced through the actual orbit of the mission spacecraft and compared to its...

of ICESat and CloudSat heritage. The spacecraft consists of an aluminum honeycomb structure. The ADCS (Attitude Determination and Control Subsystem)...

The Spacecraft Monitoring & Control (SM&C) Working Group of the Consultative Committee for Space Data Systems (CCSDS), which sees the active participation...

small ones (previously used on Cassini and the Voyager spacecraft) are used primarily for attitude control and spinup/spindown maneuvers. Two star cameras...