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Nasa Magnetospheric Multiscale Mission Tablesat 1c, Joshua Chabot, Joseph Kelley, Michael Johnson
Nasa Magnetospheric Multiscale Mission Tablesat 1c, Joshua Chabot, Joseph Kelley, Michael Johnson
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The NASA Magnetospheric MultiScale (MMS) mission (to be launched in 2014) consists of four spin-stabilized spacecraft flying in precise formation. The MMS spacecraft, which have wire booms up to 60 m long, are analyzed using the UNH MMS TableSat IC, a limited 3-DOF rotation (full spin, limited nutation) table top prototype of the MMS spacecraft. A PID controller is implemented on TableSat IC to observe the effects of spin rate and nutation control on the experimental satellite bus and scaled booms. Nutation and spin are implemented independently and the behavior of the test bed with and without SDP booms is …