Abstract: Abstract：Spacecraft control technology is one of the key techniques dominating the spacecraft development level. According to special requirements for spacecraft control raised by different space activities, the state of the art of the spacecraft control in highperformance satellites, manned spacecraft, lunar and deep space exploration is analyzed. Academician Yang Jiachi pointed out that spacecraft control was bound to walk towards intelligent autonomous control. It is further proposed in this paper that spacecraft intelligent autonomous control ought to inherit the idea and methodology of “synchronous research of theoretical approach, system architecture and components”. The characteristicmodelbased intelligent adaptive control is presently proposed at Beijing Institute of Control Engineering, being shown to be a promising method from the view point of the current application.

Key words: spacecraft attitude and orbit control, intelligent autonomous control, characteristic model, intelligent adaptive control