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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. 26, 2000
Filed:
Jul. 18, 1997
Applicant:
Inventor:
Thomas J Holmes, Portola Valley, CA (US);
Assignee:
Space Systems/Loral, Inc., Palo Alto, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B64G / ; G05D / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
701-4 ;
Abstract
A system and process is described for maintaining the attitude of a space craft to compensate for external disturbances. The on board computer generates a thruster on time signal derived from a comparison of estimated adjusted attitude based substantially on rigid body assumptions which to do not take into consideration the flexing reactions of on board flexible components.