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Analysis of External Disturbance Torque on a LEO Satellite  

Yim, Jo-Ryeong (한국항공우주연구원 위성제어팀)
Kim, Yong-Bok (한국항공우주연구원 위성제어팀)
Yong, Ki-Lyuk (한국항공우주연구원 위성제어팀)
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Aerospace Engineering and Technology / v.10, no.1, 2011 , pp. 193-200 More about this Journal
Abstract
The external disturbance torque acting on a low earth orbit spacecraft was analyzed. For the Earth pointing attitude, the maximum torque to the spacecraft is about $8.3{\times}10^{-4}$ Nms and the momentum accumulated for an orbit is about 1.4 Nms and for the Sun pointing attitude, the maximum torque to the spacecraft is about $1.6{\times}10^{-3}$ Nms and the momentum is accumulated about 3.0 Nms in the spacecraft body reference frame. The analysis results confirm that the size of magnetic torquer selected previously for the satellite is sufficient to manage the accumulated momentum by considering the dumping capacity for an orbit.
Keywords
orbit; disturbance; gravity gradient torque; aerodynamics; solar radiation; magnetic disturbance; momentum dumping;
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