Journal of Guidance Control and Dynamics • Vol 46 • No 12
Slew Maneuver Constraints for Agile Flexible Spacecraft
September 2023 • Michael A. Marshall, Sergio Pellegrino
Traditional spacecraft design paradigms rely on stiff bus structures with comparatively flexible appendages. More recent trends, however, trade deployed stiffness for packaging efficiency to stow apertures with larger areas inside existing launch vehicles. By leveraging recent advances in materials and structures, these spacecraft may be up to several orders of magnitude lighter and more flexible than the current state of the art. Motivated by the goal of achieving agility despite structural flexibility, this pape…