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Ok, I have to ask (maybe I will regret it but I have to ask):

What is a quaternion?

Robert
----- Original Message -----
From: Dan Allen 
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Sent: Thursday, February 13, 2003 5:54 PM
Subject: Spacecraft Attitude Determination and Control


> On Wednesday, February 12, 2003, at 06:16 PM, Robert Eno wrote:
>
> > The United States Naval Academy produced a book called: "Space
> > Navigation
> > Handbook" in about 1961.
>
> There is a more modern treatment done in a work called "Spacecraft
> Attitude Determination and Control", edited by James R. Wertz,
> published by Reidel.  Mine is a 1978 edition; a new edition came out
> last month - for $152!  Ouch.  I am not sure how revised the new 2003
> edition is.
>
> This work goes off more into Euler angles and using quaternions and
> such, so it is more mechanics than navigation, but there is good
> material on sun sensors, gyroscopes and spherical geometry.  Lots of
> mathematical equations, good technical drawings.
>
> If you can find a used copy of an older paperback version it may be
> work picking up.  Wertz has written several other space/math/physics
> books as well.  Search Amazon for details...
>
> Dan
>

   

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