Magnetic control without attitude determination for spinning spacecraft

In this article, a magnetic control without attitude determination for spinning spacecraft is presented. The control only uses magnetorquers as actuators and sun-sensors and magnetometers as sensors. An equilibrium angular velocity is reached by using two magnetic moments at the same time; the first one is a B-dot control that produces a despinning torque based in magnetic measurements; the second one produces a spinning torque using an inertial...