Study on specification of attitude angle for small satellite by lunar outline extraction

In this paper, attitude angle detection system for small satellite at eclipse is described. Recently, small satellite mission is applied to various fields and small satellite mission at eclipse is planned. Then it is necessary that such small satellite keeps to control the satellite attitude for ecl...

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Published in2016 55th Annual Conference of the Society of Instrument and Control Engineers of Japan (SICE) pp. 288 - 293
Main Authors Hirakoso, Nobuto, Tajima, Kensuke, Andou, Mizuki, Matsumoto, Atsushi, Shigematsu, Youichi
Format Conference Proceeding
LanguageEnglish
Japanese
Published The Society of Instrument and Control Engineers - SICE 01.09.2016
Subjects
Attitude detection system
Azimuth
Earth
lunar outline
Mathematical model
Moon
Satellite broadcasting
small satellite
Sun
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Summary:In this paper, attitude angle detection system for small satellite at eclipse is described. Recently, small satellite mission is applied to various fields and small satellite mission at eclipse is planned. Then it is necessary that such small satellite keeps to control the satellite attitude for eclipse. In this paper, the authors propose moon outline extraction method to detect the attitude angle for eclipse instead of equipping star tracker and sun sensor. The moon outline extraction capturing from the satellite is used to detect solar direction and then attitude angle is detected by analyzing solar direction. Moreover to verify effectiveness of proposing method in this paper, substitution experiment on ground is executed, and the result is estimated.
DOI:10.1109/SICE.2016.7749256