Abstract:

For spacecraft suffering from multiple celestial constraints in timevarying space environment, along with intrinsic dynamics constraints, an onboard attitude maneuver planning was studied. The full attitude was mapped to a point described in threedimensional attitude space. The attitude path planning was then transformed to sequent plannings of intermediate nodes. A set of nodes were randomly searched in the attitude space.

Key words: spacecraft , control,  , path , planning,  , random , search,  , motion , optimization,  , attitude , maneuver