WEBERSAT: data analysis and dynamic behavior

Jay Lamont Smith

doi:10.1117/12.45895

1 July 1991 WEBERSAT: data analysis and dynamic behavior

Jay Lamont Smith

Proceedings Volume 1495, Small-Satellite Technology and Applications; (1991) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.45895
Event: Orlando '91, 1991, Orlando, FL, United States

Abstract

Webersat has exhibited strange dynamic behavior as confirmed by telemetry; the spin rate has decreased from 5 to 0.05 rpm over the last year. The elongated shape of Webersat is noted to result in an unstable spin about the Z-axis. It is proposed that, in the future, spin-stabilized satellites should be designed to be short and fat about their spin axis rather than tall and thin. The Webersat space frame can be made to spin about the Z-axis if the masses are redistributed so as to produce an overall increase in the moment of inertia about the spin axis.

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Jay Lamont Smith "WEBERSAT: data analysis and dynamic behavior", Proc. SPIE 1495, Small-Satellite Technology and Applications, (1 July 1991); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.45895

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