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Attitude and Orbit Control Subsystem Operations

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This chapter provides a general overview of the attitude and orbit control subsystem, its components, and the operational tasks to be performed by the ground control personnel. It supplements the fundamentals of attitude and orbit control explained in Chap. 13.

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Faller, R. (2022). Attitude and Orbit Control Subsystem Operations. In: Sellmaier, F., Uhlig, T., Schmidhuber, M. (eds) Spacecraft Operations. Springer Aerospace Technology. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-88593-9_22

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