TY  - JOUR
T1  - COMSAT 1.0 Software Aided Design for a Low Earth Orbit Microsatellite Commissioning Phase
AU - , A.M. Si Mohammed AU - , M. Benyettou AU - , A. Boudjemai AU - , S. Chouraqui AU - , Y. Hashida AU - , M.N. Sweeting 
JO  - International Journal of Soft Computing
VL  - 2
IS  - 4
SP  - 482
EP  - 487
PY  - 2007
DA  - 2001/08/19
SN  - 1816-9503
DO  - ijscomp.2007.482.487
UR  - https://makhillpublications.co/view-article.php?doi=ijscomp.2007.482.487
KW  - Software
KW  -design
KW  -microsatellite
KW  -alsat-1
KW  -attitude
KW  -control
KW  -commissioning
AB  - In the past several years, a plethora of spacecraft control techniques have been developed that address the challenging attitude tracking, stabilization and disturbance rejection requirements of these missions. One major aspect that has been typically missing in the research area of attitude control development is the experimental validation of the theoretical results. Experimental testing is necessary before control laws can be incorporated in the future generation of spacecraft. Based on this fact, we thought on the implementation of a software design COMSAT 1.0 that has the ability to overcome these difficulties. It includes all the attitude control phases, from the launcher separation i.e., initial attitude acquisition until the accurate nadir attitude pointing. This software uses micro satellites i.e., small satellites as testing models in orbit. We have chosen Alsat-1 the first Algerian micro satellite as a test model.
ER  -