Attitude Determination and Control System Design of Sub-Arcsecond Pointing Spacecraft

Spacecraft pointing accuracies with sub-arcsec to milli-arcsec levels are becoming a norm for the future space missions, which is mainly achieved by employing mission-specific fine guidance sensor ...

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