Comments on "The GYROLITE: A New Generation Synchronous Satellite"

The effectiveness of the GYROLITE attitude stabilization is discussed on the basis of the basic mathematical equations in [1], and an avenue towards improved performance is indicated.     

Comments on "A Note on Satellite Dynamics"

Some details of the author's earlier derivation on gyrotorquer dynamics are worked out to confirm that Greensite's derivation failed to generate some important dynamic terms in the original motion equations, contrary to the claim of Guibord and Ahmed. In the above correspondence,1 it is claimed that erroneous terms were usm.     

Comments on "The Psi-Angle Error Equation in Straplown Inertial Navigation Systems"

The negative sign on the psi-angle differential equation for strapdow inertial navigation error analysis discussed by Weinreb and Bar-ltzhack is not due to differences in error propagation between gimbaled and strapdown systems, but to the definition of strapdown gyro drift rate given by them. If a consistent definition of gyro drift rate for gimbaled and strapdown systems error analysis is used, the sign change does not occur.     

Comments on "Angular Spectra in Radar Applications"

In [1], we proposed using "data adaptive" spectrum estimation techniques (e.g., maximum likelihood and maximum entropy) for radar problems such as separating low angle returns from ground reflections. W. White suggests [2] that these techniques will be of little value due to the correlation between the various received signals. In this rebuttal, we present additional conceptual arguments, simulation results and field data which support the utility of the techniques set forth in [1].     

Comments on "Unbiased converted measurements for tracking"

We show that there exists a compatibility problem in the derivation of the mean and covariance of the converted measurement errors in L. Mo et al. (ibid., vol.34, no.3, p.1023-7, 1998), and then present a modification to the computation of them, in which both the mean and the covariance are computed strictly conditioned on the measurements.