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Figure 17.

Simulated time response of LituanicaSAT-2 with 30 cm fins deployed at 10°, bang-bang B-dot control law, initial tumble rate 90 °/s, altitude 380 km.

soft magnetic core material would be able to damp oscillations that
seem theoretically feasible. However a hysteresis damping model
needs to be applied in this case and properly simulated. Attitude
modeling during thruster maneuvers and consequent thrust vector
misalignment effects are also of interest.

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