Resolving Rotational Ambiguities for Spin-stabilized Satellites

Keith Knox (Boeing LTS)

Keywords: Non-Resolved Object Characterization

Abstract:

An analysis is presented of the periodic signal received from a rotating cylindrical regular polygon. All N faces of the polygon are assumed to be diffuse reflectors with the same reflectance. The closed-form solution shows that the modulation of the periodic signal falls off as the inverse of the cube of the number of faces.

Date of Conference: September 16-19, 2008

Track: Non-Resolved Object Characterization

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