Description
A damper in a rigid spacecraft in a circular orbit may be able to stabilize
the spacecraft
that otherwise goes unstable without it. To simulate such a behavior,
a rigid spacecraft
with a damper of spherical shape was modeled as illustrated.
Inputs
Ixx,
Iyy, Izz Principal moments
of inertia
c Damping
Coefficient
j
Spherical damper inertia
Initial Condition
w1,
w2, w3: Spacecraft
angular velocities
q1, q2, q3, q4: Quaternions
alpha, beta, gamma: Damper angular velocities