The combined spacecraft is increasingly demanded to accomplish various types of space
missions. Therefore, the dynamics and control technologies of combined spacecraft are …

This article presents a general review of the existing methods for balancing satellite
simulators. The mathematical modeling for the kinematics and the dynamics of the satellite …

In the aerospace field, researchers and engineers have been using attitude simulators to
test and evaluate spacecraft attitude control algorithms, usually developed at the design …

This paper is aimed at develo** several control scenarios for vibration suppression of a
flexible microsatellite as a multibody system with nonlinear fully coupled dynamics in …

The ground-based spacecraft dynamics simulator plays an important role in the
implementation and validation of attitude control scenarios before a mission. The …

There is an increasing interest in development of spacecraft attitude simulators. A necessary
and challenging task in preparation for any attitude control experiment is to remove the …

Dynamic spacecraft simulators are becoming a widespread tool to enable effective on-
ground verification of the attitude determination and control subsystem (ADCS). In such …

One of the last steps in making a satellite is measuring the center of gravity. These
measurements are taken to ensure that the satellite is within the allowable tolerance limits …

Abstract To test the Attitude Determination and Control Subsystem of a satellite, it is
necessary to have an attitude dynamics simulator, and the simulator must be in a balanced …

This paper investigates an online intelligent identification method for spacecraft mass
characteristics. Firstly, the basic recursive least square method is given based on the …