Animation of a satellite’s orientation in free flight
Abstract
This article presents an animation of the orientation of a freely rotating rigid body. The animation algorithm is based on an exact solution of the Euler equations.
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Satellite’s animation. github.com/ogcocep/rborient/blob/main/full_sat_animation.mp4
Link to the code. github.com/ogcocep/rborient/tree/main/src
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