PASSIVE DAMPING OF THE GENERAL RELATIVITY SATELLITE GYRO,

Abstract

A passive damping method for aligning the instantaneous spin, symmetry and angular momentum axes of a solid, axially symmetric almost spherical satellite gyro is analyzed. Damping is accomplished by the dissipation of energy due to cyclic strains in the gyro body caused by its torque-free precession. Damping is calculated for a particular gyro design. (Author)

Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Nov 01, 1966
Accession Number
AD0644725

Entities

People

  • D. Skaperdas
  • Je‐Yuan Hsu
  • Thomas Chen

Organizations

  • University of Illinois Urbana–Champaign

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Space

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Angular Momentum
  • Artificial Satellites
  • Dissipation
  • General Relativity
  • Momentum
  • Physical Properties
  • Precession
  • Symmetry

Fields of Study

  • Physics

Readers

  • Control Systems Engineering.
  • Plasma Physics / Magnetohydrodynamics

Technology Areas

  • Space
  • Space - Orbital Debris