The Annular Suspension and Pointing System (ASPS) may be attached to a carrier vehicle for orientation, mechanical isolation, and fine pointing purposes applicable to space experiments. It has subassemblies for both coarse and vernier pointing. A fourteen-degree-of-freedom simulation of the ASPS mounted on a Space Shuttle has yielded initial performance data. The simulation describes: the magnetic actuators, payload sensors, coarse gimbal assemblies, control algorithms, rigid body dynamic models of the payload and Shuttle, and a control system firing model.
The Annular Suspension and Pointing System /ASPS/
Annual Rocky Mountain Guidance and Control Conference ; 1978 ; Keystone, CO
1978-03-01
Conference paper
No indication
English
Annular Suspension and Pointing System
AIAA | 1979
|The Annular Suspension and Pointing System
AIAA | 1978
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