A MAGNETICALLY SUSPENDED, SPHERICAL PERMANENT MAGNETIC DIPOLE ACTUATOR

The attitude control system (ACS) of a spacecraft contains a minimum of three reaction wheels to rotate the spacecraft in 3 degrees of freedom (DoF), but typically contains additional reaction wheels for both redundancy and improved pointing accuracy. Each wheel rotates the spacecraft about its axis...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Hamer, Tyler T., Noh, Minkyun, Zhou, Lei, Chabot, Joshua, Trumper, David L.
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Mechanical Engineering
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: 2022
Online Access:https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/137505.2