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Spacecraft Attitude Dynamics

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The general motion of a perfectly rigid body is the superposition of translation and rotation. We talked about translation under the influence of a gravitational field and possible external perturbations in the previous chapters. Now we want to have a look at the rotational behavior of a body.

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  • 31 October 2019

    In the original version of the book, the following belated corrections are to be incorporated.

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Walter, U. (2018). Spacecraft Attitude Dynamics. In: Astronautics. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-74373-8_15

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