An international team of researchers has unveiled a spacecraft attitude control system that can guarantee precise stabilization and maneuvering within a predefined time, even under extreme and unpredictable space disturbances.

Published in IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics, the study titled “Predefined-Time Disturbance Observer-Based Attitude Tracking Control for Spacecraft: A Solution for Arbitrary Disturbances” was led by Dr. Nguyen Xuan-Mung of Sejong University (South Korea), alongside colleagues from China and Taiwan.