org.orekit.attitudes
public class YawSteering extends GroundPointingWrapper
Yaw steering is mainly used for low Earth orbiting satellites with no missions-related constraints on yaw angle. It sets the yaw angle in such a way the solar arrays have maximal lightning without changing the roll and pitch.
The motion in yaw is smooth when the Sun is far from the orbital plane, but gets more and more square like as the Sun gets closer to the orbital plane. The degenerate extreme case with the Sun in the orbital plane leads to a yaw angle switching between two steady states, with instantaneaous π radians rotations at each switch, two times per orbit. This degenerate case is clearly not operationally sound so another pointing mode is chosen when Sun comes closer than some predefined threshold to the orbital plane.
This class can handle (for now) only a theoretically perfect yaw steering (i.e. the yaw angle is exactly the optimal angle). Smoothed yaw steering with a few sine waves approaching the optimal angle will be added in the future if needed.
This attitude is implemented as a wrapper on top of an underlying ground pointing law that defines the roll and pitch angles.
Instances of this class are guaranteed to be immutable.
GroundPointing
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Serialized FormConstructor and Description |
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YawSteering(GroundPointing groundPointingLaw,
PVCoordinatesProvider sun,
Vector3D phasingAxis)
Creates a new instance.
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Modifier and Type | Method and Description |
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Rotation |
getCompensation(PVCoordinatesProvider pvProv,
AbsoluteDate date,
Frame orbitFrame,
Attitude base)
Compute the compensation rotation at given date.
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getAttitude, getBaseState, getGroundPointingLaw, getTargetPoint, getTargetPV, getUnderlyingAttitudeProvider
getBodyFrame
public YawSteering(GroundPointing groundPointingLaw, PVCoordinatesProvider sun, Vector3D phasingAxis)
groundPointingLaw
- ground pointing attitude provider without yaw compensationsun
- sun motion modelphasingAxis
- satellite axis that must be roughly in Sun direction
(if solar arrays rotation axis is Y, then this axis should be either +X or -X)public Rotation getCompensation(PVCoordinatesProvider pvProv, AbsoluteDate date, Frame orbitFrame, Attitude base) throws OrekitException
getCompensation
in class GroundPointingWrapper
pvProv
- provider for PV coordinatesdate
- date at which rotation is requestedorbitFrame
- reference frame from which attitude is computedbase
- base satellite attitude in given frame.OrekitException
- if some specific error occursCopyright © 2002–2015 CS Syst?mes d'Information. All rights reserved.