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Update link to attitude paper

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...@@ -102,7 +102,7 @@ components between Q1 and Q2 or -Q1 and Q2 leads to completely different rotatio ...@@ -102,7 +102,7 @@ components between Q1 and Q2 or -Q1 and Q2 leads to completely different rotatio
will typically have one sign change per orbit at some random point. The third reason is that instead of doing an will typically have one sign change per orbit at some random point. The third reason is that instead of doing an
interpolation that respect quaternions constraint, the interpolation departs from the constraint first and attempts to interpolation that respect quaternions constraint, the interpolation departs from the constraint first and attempts to
recover afterwards in a normalization step. Orekit uses a method based on Sergeï Tanygin's paper recover afterwards in a normalization step. Orekit uses a method based on Sergeï Tanygin's paper
[Attitude interpolation](http://www.agi.com/downloads/resources/white-papers/Attitude-interpolation.pdf) with slight [Attitude interpolation](http://www.agi.com/resources/white-papers/attitude-interpolation) with slight
changes to use modified Rodrigues vectors as defined in Malcolm D Shuster's changes to use modified Rodrigues vectors as defined in Malcolm D Shuster's
[A Survey of Attitude Representations](http://www.ladispe.polito.it/corsi/Meccatronica/02JHCOR/2011-12/Slides/Shuster_Pub_1993h_J_Repsurv_scan.pdf), [A Survey of Attitude Representations](http://www.ladispe.polito.it/corsi/Meccatronica/02JHCOR/2011-12/Slides/Shuster_Pub_1993h_J_Repsurv_scan.pdf),
despite attitude is still represented by quaternions in Orekit (Rodrigues vectors are used only for interpolation). despite attitude is still represented by quaternions in Orekit (Rodrigues vectors are used only for interpolation).
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