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What do you use for attitude control? Are your design files and software on a public repository?
by shraken 10y ago
What do you use for attitude control? Are your design files and software on a public repository?
- ralmeida 10y agoI would love to know this too. Also, in general, could you talk a bit about other possible 'avionic' systems in the satellite?
- ralmeida 10y agoIf elkos doesn't answer, according to some research I did, 'reaction wheels' are mostly used for changing attitude, and attitude is measured using either star tracking or sunray angle measurement. One source: http://bluecanyontech.com/portfolio-posts/cubesatsystems/ http://bluecanyontech.com/portfolio-posts/cubesatsystems/ Note: I'm not particularly familiar with CubeSat development other than being very curious about it.
- rtkwe 10y agoTwo common options are magneto-torque rods that that use the earth's magnetic field or reaction wheels that spin masses up and down to provide torques to provide attitude control. They've documented their attitude systems btw on the site [1] it's magneto-torques and a "spin torquer" which I hadn't heard of but looks like it's another type of magnetic attitude control. [1] https://upsat.gr/?page_id=26 https://upsat.gr/?page_id=26