Thruster Design for the Attitude/Force control of spacecraft

PABLO SERVIDIA; RICARDO S. SÁNCHEZ PEÑA

IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON AEROSPACE AND ELECTRONIC SYSTEMS

IEEE-INST ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INC

Lugar: New York; Año: 2002 vol. 38 p. 1172 - 1180

0018-9251

The objective of this work is to design the configuration ofthrusters and valves of a propulsion system which should rejectexternal and internal perturbations to control position andattitude of a spacecraft. As has been proved in a previous paper[6], there exist configurations of 6 thrusters which can achieve thistask, even under the failure of any one of them. Nevertheless, thatprevious result only presents analysis conditions and furthermoreits implementation would demand also 6 valves, one for eachthruster. Here we propose a design method that can solve theaforementioned problem with 6 thrusters/3 valves.