AE 403: Spacecraft Attitude Control

• University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
• Spring Semester, 2008
• Assistant Professor Tim Bretl

Homework and Solutions

• Homework #1 (due Thursday, January 24): [Problems] [Solutions]
• Homework #2 (due Tuesday, February 5): [Problems] [Solutions] [Solutions (corrected initial conditions)]
• Homework #3 (due Thursday, February 14): [Problems] [Solutions]
• Homework #4 (due Tuesday, February 26): [Problems] [Solutions]
• Homework #5 (due Thursday, March 6): [Problems] [Solutions]
• Midterm (Thursday, March 13): [Problems] [Solutions]
• Homework #6 (due Thursday, April 3): [Problems] [Solutions]
• Homework #7 (due Tuesday, April 15): [Problems] [Solutions]
• Homework #8 (due Tuesday, April 29): [Problems] [Solutions]
• Final (7-10PM Wednesday, May 7): [Rough List of Topics] [Problems] [Solutions]

Final Papers from Graduate Students

• Alex Ghosh, "Anik E2: A case study in ground-based attitude control recovery methods"
• Ashwin Jadhav, Untitled (The space program of India)

Spacecraft Examples

• MESSENGER: [News] [Vehicle] [Mission] [Science]
• SYNCOM: [Basic Facts] ["Syncom and its Successors" (Rosen, 1984)]
• TRANSIT: [The Legacy of Transit]
• GPS: [GPS IIF] ["Origins, Evolution, and Future of Satellite Navigation" (Parkinson, 1997)]
• CGRO: [NASA Site] [Overview #1] [Overview #2]
• FUSE: [JHU Site] [Overview] [Original Control Design] [New Control Design]
• Galileo: [JPL Site] [UCLA Site] [Overview]
• Magellan: [Details] [Overview] [JPL Site] [NASA Site] [Boeing Site]
• International Space Station: [NASA Site]
• Explorer 1: [NASA Site]
• Polar BEAR: ["The Polar Bear Spacecraft" (Peterson and Grant, 1987)] [Brief Overview]
• Hermes CTS: [Wertz, Chap. 1 - Google or Amazon] [Brief NASA Overview] [Brief CSA Overview]
• Lewis: [Overview: "Lewis Spins out of Control" (System Failure Case Studies, 1(8), Nov 2007)] [Detail: "Lewis Spacecraft Mission Failure Investigation Board - Final Report" (Feb 1998)]
• Dawn: [NASA Site] [Yo-Yo De-Spin: (1) (2)] [Mission Overview] [Theory of Yo-Yo De-Spin]
• Mars Odyssey: [NASA Site] [Mission Summary]
• Intelsat IV: [Boeing Site] [NASA Site]
• TIMED: [Mission Guide] [Overview] [JHU Site] [Space Systems Failures (Harland and Lorenz) p214-215]
• TERRIERS: [BU Site] [Space Systems Failures (Harland and Lorenz) p215-216]
• Olympus: [BU Site] ["The OLYMPUS satellite programme" (Hughes, 1991)] ["Olympus end of life anomaly - a perseid meteoroid impact event?" (Caswell et al., 1995)] [Space Systems Failures (Harland and Lorenz) p335-338]
• SOHO: [NASA Site] [Space Systems Failures (Harland and Lorenz) p337-339]
• NEAR: [Everything you ever wanted to know]

Notes

• Syllabus
• Jan 15: [Ghosh] [D'Souza]
• Jan 17: [Huffman] [Adam]
• Jan 22: [Huffman] [Lee]
• Jan 24: [D'Souza] [Huffman]
• Jan 29: [D'Souza] [Majcan]
• Jan 31: [Majcan] [Notes on Direction Cosine Matrices]
• Feb 5: [Ghosh] [Wheeler]
• Feb 7: [Majcan] [Wilson] [Notes on transforming R to Q]
• Feb 12: [Adam] [Lee] [More notes on quaternions]
• Feb 14: [Adam] [Lee]
• Feb 19: [Hutches] [Andrewski]
• Feb 21: [Boulos] [Wheeler]
• Feb 26: [Hutches] [Wilson]
• Feb 28: [Boulos] [Andrewski]
• Mar 4: [Hutches] [Fournier] [More notes on active nutation control]
• Mar 6: [Winski] [Sabina]
• Mar 11: [Birnbaum] [Fournier]
• Mar 13: EXAM!
• Mar 25: [Wheeler] [Fournier]
• Mar 27: [Andrewski] [Long]
• Apr 1: [Ghosh] [Wilson]
• Apr 3: [Harbour] [Long]
• Apr 8: [Birnbaum] [Jadhav]
• Apr 10: [Sabina] [Harbour]
• Apr 15: [Birnbaum] [Long]
• Apr 17: [Harbour] [Winski]
• Apr 22: [Long] [Winski]
• Apr 24: [Jadhav] [Boulos]
• Apr 29: [Sabina]
• May 7 (7-10PM): EXAM!

Helpful Software

• "Euler angle calculator" from Mr. Hutches: [rotation_matrix.m] [RA1.m] [RA2.m] [RA3.m]

Fun Stuff

• What's up there? (From Mr. Huffman.) [Satellite Database]
• Lunar eclipse on Feb 20, 2008 from Mr. Birnbaum:
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