European Space Agency
ESA Education
The attitude and orbit control subsystem
The attitude and orbit control subsystem
ESA Academy

The ESMO teams

16/02/2011

AOCS Milan

University

Politecnico di Milano, Italy

Responsibilities

Attitude and orbit control subsystem lead

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 Milan team designs the subsystem architecture and selects and sizes the required hardware; further tasks include the simulation of the subsystem and the definition of AOCS modes and mode transitions.