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The results of reconstruction of uncontrolled attitude motion of the Foton M-2 satellite using measurements with the accelerometer TAS-3 are presented. The attitude motion of this satellite has been previously determined by the measurement data of the Earth’s magnetic field and the angular velocity. The TAS-3 data for this purpose are used for the first time. These data contain a well-pronounced additional component which made impossible their direct employment for the reconstruction of the attitude motion and whose origin was unknown several years ago. Later it has become known that the additional component is caused by the influence of the Earth’s magnetic field. The disclosure of this fact allowed us to take into account a necessary correction in processing of TAS-3 data and to use them for the reconstruction of the attitude motion of Foton M-2. Here, a modified method of processing TAS-3 data is described, as well as results of its testing and employing. The testing consisted in the direct comparison of the motion reconstructed by the new method with the motion constructed by the magnetic measurements. The new method allowed us to find the actual motion of Foton M-2 in the period June 9, 2005–June 14, 2005, when no magnetic measurements were carried out.
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Original Russian Text © T. Beuselinck, C. Van Bavinchove, V.V. Sazonov, S.Yu. Chebukov, 2009, published in Kosmicheskie Issledovaniya, 2009, Vol. 47, No. 6, pp. 537–549.
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Beuselinck, T., Van Bavinchove, C., Sazonov, V.V. et al. Determination of Foton M-2 satellite attitude motion by the data of microacceleration measurements. Cosmic Res 47, 500–512 (2009). https://doi.org/10.1134/S0010952509060069
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