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The goal of this book is to serve both as a practical technical reference and a resource for gaining a fuller understanding of the state of the art of spacecraft momentum control systems, specifically looking at control moment gyroscopes (CMGs). As a result, the subject matter includes theory, technology, and systems engineering. The authors combine material on system-level architecture of spacecraft that feature momentum-control systems with material about the momentum-control hardware and software. This also encompasses material on the theoretical and algorithmic approaches to the control of space vehicles with CMGs. In essence, CMGs are the attitude-control actuators that make contemporary highly agile spacecraft possible. The rise of commercial Earth imaging, the advances in privately built spacecraft (including small satellites), and the growing popularity of the subject matter in academic circles over the past decade argues that now is the time for an in-depth treatment of the topic. CMGs are augmented by reaction wheels and related algorithms for steering all such actuators, which together comprise the field of spacecraft momentum control systems. The material is presented at a level suitable for practicing engineers and those with an undergraduate degree in mechanical, electrical, and/or aerospace engineering.

Aeronautics Engineering & Astronautics --- Mechanical Engineering --- Engineering & Applied Sciences --- Space vehicles --- Attitude control systems. --- Control systems. --- Attitude control systems (Astronautics) --- Engineering. --- Dynamics. --- Ergodic theory. --- Aerospace engineering. --- Astronautics. --- Control engineering. --- Aerospace Technology and Astronautics. --- Dynamical Systems and Ergodic Theory. --- Control. --- Flight control --- Electronic equipment --- Control systems --- Differentiable dynamical systems. --- Control and Systems Theory. --- Differential dynamical systems --- Dynamical systems, Differentiable --- Dynamics, Differentiable --- Differential equations --- Global analysis (Mathematics) --- Topological dynamics --- Space sciences --- Aeronautics --- Astrodynamics --- Space flight --- Control engineering --- Control equipment --- Control theory --- Engineering instruments --- Automation --- Programmable controllers --- Ergodic transformations --- Continuous groups --- Mathematical physics --- Measure theory --- Transformations (Mathematics) --- Dynamical systems --- Kinetics --- Mathematics --- Mechanics, Analytic --- Force and energy --- Mechanics --- Physics --- Statics --- Aeronautical engineering --- Astronautics --- Engineering