Spacecraft Dynamics And Control System – Politecnico di Torino

Argomenti del programma: • Historical background, examples, and classifications of reference vehicles and missions (definition of the technical context). • Introduction to proximity maneuvers (orbital maneuvers, proximity flight, rendezvous and docking): reference frames and orbital parameters. • Review of rigid body dynamics: attitude representation (Euler angles and quaternions). Euler’s equation and its generalized form.