European Space Agency
ESA Academy

The ESMO teams

14/03/2011

AOCS Bucharest

University

Politehnica University of Bucharest, Romania

Responsibilities

Attitude and orbit control subsystem (AOCS) software

The project

The tasks of the attitude and orbit control subsystem (AOCS) are to de-spin the spacecraft after launch and to point solar panels, camera, thrusters and antennas. The AOCS Bucharest team develops the control laws and software required to perform these tasks. It also supports the AOCS system lead team in the design process.