Low-Cost Orientation Determination System for CubeSat Based Solely on Solar and Magnetic Sensors
Sensors, 2023 CubeSats require accurate determination of their orientation relative to the Sun, Earth, and other celestial bodies to operate successfully and collect scientific data.
Yerkebulan Nurgizat +4 more
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Real-time single-frequency GPS/MEMS-IMU attitude determination of lightweight UAVs. [PDF]
Sensors (Basel), 2015 Eling C, Klingbeil L, Kuhlmann H.
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Results of the attitude reconstruction for the UniSat-6 microsatellite using in-orbit data [PDF]
, 2016 UniSat-6 is a civilian microsatellite that was launched in orbit on the 19th of June, 2014. Its main mission consisted in the in-orbit release of a number of on-board carried Cubesats and in the transmission to the UniSat-6 ground station of telemetry ...
Chantal Cappelletti +11 more
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A Tutorial on Horizon-Based Optical Navigation and Attitude Determination With Space Imaging Systems
IEEE Access, 2021 Images of a nearby celestial body collected by a camera on an exploration spacecraft contain a wealth of actionable information. This work considers how the apparent location of the observed body’s horizon in a digital image may be used to infer ...
John A. Christian
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Attitude Sensor from Ellipsoid Observations: A Numerical and Experimental Validation
Sensors, 2020 The preliminary design and validation of a novel, high accuracy horizon-sensor for small satellites is presented, which is based on the theory of attitude determination from ellipsoid observations.
Dario Modenini +2 more
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Aerospace, 2019 In this paper, the attitude determination problem from two vector observations is revisited, incorporating the redundant equality constraint obtained by the dot product of vector observations.
Jin Wu, Shangqiu Shan
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Aerospace, 2020 JAXA’s ERG (Exploration of Energization and Radiation in Geospace) Spacecraft, which is nicknamed Arase, was launched on 20 December 2016. Arase is a spin-stabilized and Sun-oriented spacecraft. Its mission is to explore how relativistic electrons in the
Halil Ersin Soken +5 more
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Attitude determination and control for centrifugal tether deployment on the ESTCube-1 nanosatellite; pp. 242–249 [PDF]
Proceedings of the Estonian Academy of Sciences, 2014 This paper presents the design, development, and pre-launch characterization of the ESTCube-1 Attitude Determination and Control System (ADCS). The design driver for the ADCS has been the mission requirement to spin up the satellite to 360 deg à sâ1 ...
Andris Slavinskis +22 more
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A Direct Attitude Determination Approach Based on GPS Double-Difference Carrier Phase Measurements
Journal of Applied Mathematics, 2014 The principle of the traditional attitude solution approach based on GPS (Global Position System) is to get the attitude matrix according to the relationship of coordinates.
Jianhua Cheng, Jing Wang, Lin Zhao
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Multiantenna GPS-Over-Fiber System for Attitude Determination Using Phase-Derived Range Measurement
IEEE Photonics Journal, 2019 A multiantenna global positioning system over fiber (GPS-over-fiber) system with real-time line bias monitoring is proposed for attitude determination of vehicles.
Xiangchuan Wang +3 more
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