An Overview of the Pointing Control System for Nasa’s Space Infra-red Telescope Facility (sirtf)
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This paper discusses the pointing control system for NASA’s Space Infra-Red Telescope Facility (SIRTF). After an introduction to the SIRTF mission and telescope, an overview is given of the pointing control hardware, pointing control architecture, pointing requirements and capability, attitude constraints and commanding, attitude observers and required calibrations.
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