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the problem of finding the spacecraft rotation that best maps a set of reference direction vectors onto their measured body-frame counterparts in a weighted least-squares fit.

In astrodynamics, Wahba's problem refers to the problem of finding the spacecraft rotation that best maps a set of reference direction vectors onto their measured body-frame counterparts in a weighted least-squares fit. This meaning comes from Wahba (1965) in SIAM Review.[1]

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References

  1. Wahba, G. (1965). A Least Squares Estimate of Satellite Attitude. SIAM Review, 7(3), 409-409. https://doi.org/10.1137/1007077

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