• DocumentCode
    525083
  • Title

    Supporting omni-directional communications capability in variable attitude spacecraft

  • Author

    Brenchley, Mark ; Garner, Peter ; Maynard, Kevin ; Butlin, Tim ; Krabel, Eckhard

  • Author_Institution
    Surrey Satellite Technol. Ltd., Guildford, UK
  • fYear
    2010
  • fDate
    14-16 June 2010
  • Firstpage
    1
  • Lastpage
    6
  • Abstract
    This paper describes the work undertaken to provide omni-directional communications on Sapphire, a variable attitude spacecraft. Several options to solve the problem are considered and two chosen; analysis is presented to show that mission objectives can be met.
  • Keywords
    Aerospace control; Artificial satellites; Attitude control; Cameras; Earth; Educational institutions; Moon; Payloads; Space technology; Space vehicles;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Microwave Radar and Wireless Communications (MIKON), 2010 18th International Conference on
  • Conference_Location
    Vilnius, Lithuania
  • Print_ISBN
    978-1-4244-5288-0
  • Type

    conf

  • Filename
    5540488