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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 31, 1976
Filed:
Jun. 27, 1975
Applicant:
Inventors:
John Edward Keigler, Princeton, NJ (US);
Ludwig Muhlfelder, Livingston, NJ (US);
Robert Joseph Cenker, Princeton, NJ (US);
Assignee:
RCA Corporation, New York, NY (US);
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B64G / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
244169 ; 244322 ;
Abstract
A pair of reaction motors or thrusters connected to spin-stabilized spacecraft are used to reorient spacecraft attitude without affecting spacecraft velocity. The spacecraft reaction motors are arranged to produce a couple in response to an attitude reference signal without applying a spacecraft velocity changing force to the spin-stabilized spacecraft.