Fig. 3.

First ten hours of the simulated time series for the Y and Z components (corresponding to the pitch and yaw of the spacecraft, respectively) of the absolute pointing errors for spacecraft jitter, for the nominal case of four reaction wheels, two star trackers, 60 s centroid sampling cadence, with no interruptions, and with the payload always in the loop. The sinusoidal pattern is a result of thermo-elastic deformation errors between centroid measurements. The combination of the Y and Z component oscillations is a circular motion of the pointing direction with period corresponding to the orbit period.
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