AE 403

Homework and Solutions

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Final Papers from Graduate Students

Alex Ghosh, "Anik E2: A case study in ground-based attitude control recovery methods"
Ashwin Jadhav, Untitled (The space program of India)

Spacecraft Examples

MESSENGER: [News] [Vehicle] [Mission] [Science]
SYNCOM: [Basic Facts] ["Syncom and its Successors" (Rosen, 1984)]
TRANSIT: [The Legacy of Transit]
GPS: [GPS IIF] ["Origins, Evolution, and Future of Satellite Navigation" (Parkinson, 1997)]
CGRO: [NASA Site] [Overview #1] [Overview #2]
FUSE: [JHU Site] [Overview] [Original Control Design] [New Control Design]
Galileo: [JPL Site] [UCLA Site] [Overview]
Magellan: [Details] [Overview] [JPL Site] [NASA Site] [Boeing Site]
International Space Station: [NASA Site]
Explorer 1: [NASA Site]
Polar BEAR: ["The Polar Bear Spacecraft" (Peterson and Grant, 1987)] [Brief Overview]
Hermes CTS: [Wertz, Chap. 1 - Google or Amazon] [Brief NASA Overview] [Brief CSA Overview]
Lewis: [Overview: "Lewis Spins out of Control" (System Failure Case Studies, 1(8), Nov 2007)] [Detail: "Lewis Spacecraft Mission Failure Investigation Board - Final Report" (Feb 1998)]
Dawn: [NASA Site] [Yo-Yo De-Spin: (1) (2)] [Mission Overview] [Theory of Yo-Yo De-Spin]
Mars Odyssey: [NASA Site] [Mission Summary]
Intelsat IV: [Boeing Site] [NASA Site]
TIMED: [Mission Guide] [Overview] [JHU Site] [Space Systems Failures (Harland and Lorenz) p214-215]
TERRIERS: [BU Site] [Space Systems Failures (Harland and Lorenz) p215-216]
Olympus: [BU Site] ["The OLYMPUS satellite programme" (Hughes, 1991)] ["Olympus end of life anomaly - a perseid meteoroid impact event?" (Caswell et al., 1995)] [Space Systems Failures (Harland and Lorenz) p335-338]
SOHO: [NASA Site] [Space Systems Failures (Harland and Lorenz) p337-339]
NEAR: [Everything you ever wanted to know]

Notes

Syllabus
Jan 15: [Ghosh] [D'Souza]
Jan 17: [Huffman] [Adam]
Jan 22: [Huffman] [Lee]
Jan 24: [D'Souza] [Huffman]
Jan 29: [D'Souza] [Majcan]
Jan 31: [Majcan] [Notes on Direction Cosine Matrices]
Feb 5: [Ghosh] [Wheeler]
Feb 7: [Majcan] [Wilson] [Notes on transforming R to Q]
Feb 12: [Adam] [Lee] [More notes on quaternions]
Feb 14: [Adam] [Lee]
Feb 19: [Hutches] [Andrewski]
Feb 21: [Boulos] [Wheeler]
Feb 26: [Hutches] [Wilson]
Feb 28: [Boulos] [Andrewski]
Mar 4: [Hutches] [Fournier] [More notes on active nutation control]
Mar 6: [Winski] [Sabina]
Mar 11: [Birnbaum] [Fournier]
Mar 13: EXAM!
Mar 25: [Wheeler] [Fournier]
Mar 27: [Andrewski] [Long]
Apr 1: [Ghosh] [Wilson]
Apr 3: [Harbour] [Long]
Apr 8: [Birnbaum] [Jadhav]
Apr 10: [Sabina] [Harbour]
Apr 15: [Birnbaum] [Long]
Apr 17: [Harbour] [Winski]
Apr 22: [Long] [Winski]
Apr 24: [Jadhav] [Boulos]
Apr 29: [Sabina]
May 7 (7-10PM): EXAM!

Helpful Software

"Euler angle calculator" from Mr. Hutches: [rotation_matrix.m] [RA1.m] [RA2.m] [RA3.m]

Fun Stuff

What's up there? (From Mr. Huffman.) [Satellite Database]
Lunar eclipse on Feb 20, 2008 from Mr. Birnbaum: