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Complete Linear Attitude-Independent Magnetometer Calibration

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The TWOSTEP algorithm, which has been applied successfully to the attitude independent estimation of magnetometer biases is extended to estimate scale factors and nonorthogonality corrections. For the case of a spinning spacecraft, the algorithm performs well. This goes against the common wisdom that not much more than biases can be determined without knowledge of the attitude.

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  1. Jefe, Grupo de Control de Actitud, Comisión Nacional de Actividades Espaciales (CONAE), Avenida Paseo Colón 751, 1063, Buenos Aires, Argentina

    Roberto Alonso

  2. Acme Spacecraft Company, 13017 Wisteria Drive, Box 328, Germantown, Maryland, 20874, USA

    Malcolm D. Shuster (Director of Research)

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Alonso, R., Shuster, M.D. Complete Linear Attitude-Independent Magnetometer Calibration. J of Astronaut Sci 50, 477–490 (2002). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF03546249

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