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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 10, 1991
Filed:
Aug. 09, 1990
Michael A Paluszek, Lawrenceville, NJ (US);
General Electric Company, East Windsor, NJ (US);
Abstract
The magnitude and direction of the residual magnetic field or dipole of an orbiting spacecraft is estimated from the attitude-perturbing effects of its interaction with the magnetic field of the heavenly body about which it orbits. The measurements are performed over a significant portion of an orbit. The estimate uses h, the total spacecraft momentum in the body frame, and its body angular rate .omega.. The Earth's magnetic flux density B is determined either by magnetometer measurements, or by recourse to stored historical and ephemeris information.
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