Determination of the Orientation of an Artificial Satellite from Magnetic Field Data in Orbit

At present, the determination of the position of satellite axes from data obtained via measurement of the magnetic field in orbit is an urgent task. This task is important, because the satellite equipment, on the one hand, is minimal, and, on the other hand, it always includes magnetometers. General...

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Published inGeomagnetism and Aeronomy Vol. 60; no. 3; pp. 289 - 291
Main Authors Akhmet’ev, P. M., Smirnov, A. Yu
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Moscow Pleiades Publishing 01.05.2020
Springer Nature B.V
Subjects
Angular velocity
Artificial satellites
Earth and Environmental Science
Earth Sciences
Geophysics/Geodesy
Magnetic fields
Magnetic measurement
Magnetism
Magnetometers
Position measurement
Satellite equipment
Satellites
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Summary:At present, the determination of the position of satellite axes from data obtained via measurement of the magnetic field in orbit is an urgent task. This task is important, because the satellite equipment, on the one hand, is minimal, and, on the other hand, it always includes magnetometers. Generally speaking, it is not possible to determine the position of a satellite based solely on magnetic measurements—it is easy to consider the case of a satellite rotating around a magnetic field vector. Conversely, such movement is very special; it is not carried out in an actual situation with an uncontrolled satellite. The combined method proposed below makes it possible to determine the angles and angular velocities of an object based on measurements of only the magnetic field.
ISSN:0016-7932
1555-645X
0016-7940
DOI:10.1134/S0016793220020036