Spacecraft Attitude and Orbit Control is a completely updated reference covering all aspects of spacecraft attitude and orbit control. It is based on 30 years of experience in spaceraft control and includes cutting edge work that is unavailable in any other book. The book is intended to be fully self-contained and includes all required mathematics and control theory needed to delve into spacecraft control. The book approaches spacecraft control from a broader perspective by covering relative spacecraft position control as well as attitude control.
The book includes complete chapters on spacecraft examples including solar sails, formation flying, geosynchronous spacecraft and sun-nadir pointing spacecraft. Topics that influence attitude control, including thermal control, power systems and communications links, are also included. Other chapters include spacecraft operations, fault detection and the spacecraft design process.
Numerous examples with code from the Spacecraft Control Toolbox are included. The examples are provided as Matlab scripts. Owners of the toolbox can run every example and the book is included with each Professional and Classroom purchase. However, the textbook is fully self-contained and it is not necessary to own the toolboxes to learn the material.
The textbook is suitable for college juniors and seniors, graduate students and aerospace professionals.
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