PROBLEM 18.155
A 2500-kg satellite is 2.4 m high and has octagonal bases of sides
1.2 m. The coordinate axes shown are the principal centroidal axes of
inertia of the satellite, and its radii of gyration are
0.90 m
xz
kk
and
0.98 m.
y
k
The satellite is equipped with a main 500-N thruster
E and four 20-N thrusters A, B, C, and D, which can expel fuel in the
positive y direction. The satellite is spinning at the rate of 36 rev/h
about its axis of symmetry ,
y
G which maintains a fixed direction in
space, when thrusters A and B are activated for 2 s. Determine (a) the
precession axis of the satellite, (b) its rate of precession, (c) its rate of
spin.
PROBLEM 18.155 (Continued)