[Baps] TOMORROW, Thu 4/7: Small satellite Attitude Control Open Discussion with Doug Sinclair and John Enright (with Pizza) 4:00 pm in 33-116

[Kerri Cahoy]

Hi All,

Tomorrow, Thursday April 7th, Doug Sinclair, owner of highly-regarded
Sinclair Interplanetary, and Dr. John Enright will have a short
presentation and sure-to-be-entertaining-and-informational open discussion
on small satellite attitude control systems, such as using reaction wheels
and star trackers.

This discussion is open to the department and small satellite and small
platform controls community, with pizza and drinks served (on a first-come,
first-served basis).

Doug Sinclair and John Enright will have some availability to meet on
Thursday 4/7 and Friday 4/8, so please contact Marilyn Good (megood at mit.edu)
ASAP if you would like to meet with them, and please help distribute this
flyer widely (post and e-mail).

Best,
Kerri

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AeroAstro Special Event
*Satellite Attitude Control: **A Discussion with Doug Sinclair and John
Enright*
*Doug Sinclair, Owner, Sinclair Interplanetary*
*Dr. John Enright,  Ryerson University*
*Thursday, April 7, 2016*
*4:00 pm in 33-116*
*Pizza will be provided*

When MOST (the Microvariability and Oscillations of Stars Telescope), a 60
kg microsatellite, demonstrated sub-arcsecond pointing in 2003, it was
revolutionary.  Ten years later, high performance attitude control has
become a standard tool available to micro- and nanosatellite designers.
>From gravity gradient booms to thrusters to wheels; from star sensors to
magnetometers to GPS back to star sensors; the equipment used to point
satellites changes over time.

Doug Sinclair will talk about some of the 56 missions that are currently
flying his hardware and showing a range of attitude control performance and
architectures.  Knowing where we are and where we came from, we will ponder
together where we might go in the future.

Dr. Enright, an Associate Professor in the Department of Aerospace
Engineering at Ryerson University, and a graduate of the MIT AeroAstro
Space Systems Lab, will share some of his pragmatic experiences in
building, calibrating (and recalibrating) innovative attitude sensors. His
research involves spacecraft attitude estimation and attitude sensor design
and calibration, and he has developed many of the processing algorithms for
Sinclair Interplanetary sun sensors and star trackers

Questions? Or to schedule time to meet with the speakers, please contact
megood at mit.edu and kcahoy at mit.edu

http://www.sinclairinterplanetary.com/
http://www.ryerson.ca/aerospace/research/Research%20profiles/enright.html



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Kerri Cahoy
Assistant Professor of Aeronautics and Astronautics
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 37-367
77 Massachusetts Ave.
Cambridge, MA 02139, USA
Cell phone: 650 814-8148
E-mail: kcahoy at mit.edu, kerri.cahoy at gmail.com
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