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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 23, 2023
Filed:
Sep. 13, 2019
Mitsubishi Electric Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
An attitude control apparatus () includes an ideal thrust direction calculator (), an ideal attitude calculator (), a target attitude calculator (), and a torque calculator (). The ideal thrust direction calculator () calculates an ideal thrust direction of a thruster. The target attitude calculator () calculates a target attitude that is the attitude of a satellite in which a deviation from an ideal attitude is minimized within a movement limitation of an attitude control actuator () while a panel surface faces the sun. The torque calculator () calculates a torque for turning the satellite from an actual attitude to the target attitude and transmits a torque instruction to the attitude control actuator ().