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This paper presents an active control design for spacecraft initial attitude acquisition (IAA) by using two magnetic torquers on the X and Y body axes. A very robust and fully autonomous design for IAA can be fulfilled by the use of a simple magnetic control law, a proportional-plus-derivative controller. A modified “B-dot law” provides the derivative control action while the cross product of spacecraft...
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