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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 17, 1977
Filed:
Mar. 13, 1975
Applicant:
Inventors:
Josef Siegfried Pistiner, Lafayette Hill, PA (US);
Ludwig Muhlfelder, Livingston, NJ (US);
John Edward Keigler, Princeton, NJ (US);
Assignee:
RCA Corporation, New York, NY (US);
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B64G / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
244169 ;
Abstract
Spacecraft nutation caused by applying propulsive forces to a spacecraft along an axis which does not pass through the spacecraft's center of gravity is eliminated by a signal responsive control system which operates the propulsive forces for a predetermined time period which corresponds to an integral number of nutation periods.