Guidance Navigation and Control for Autonomous Multiple Spacecraft Assembly: Analysis and Experimentation

Table 2

Main simulation parameters.

Mass of each simulator	10,5	kg
Inertia of simulator	0.063	kg m^2
Inertia of the two simulators assembled	0.18	kg m^2
Single thruster estimated force [36]	0.16	𝑁
Docking cone semiaperture	0.75	degrees
Force arms (for torque generation)	5, 10, 21	cm
Limit distance for switching off the thrusters	0.7	m
iGPS accuracy	1	mm
Gyroscope accuracy	0.003	deg/sec
Thrusters minimum actuation time	1.5⋅10^−3	sec