Zkootz t1_jd2l6m7 wrote
Reply to comment by Mackie_Macheath in 10 months after its launch by SpaceX, a $10,000 satellite made by students with off-the-shelf materials and powered by 48 Energizer AA batteries, is not only working, it's demonstrating a way to reduce space junk by lughnasadh
Yeah but did the person not mean that gyroscopes could be used in vase thrusters are not working/out of fuel?
GoodyPower t1_jd331cu wrote
I believe gyros can/could orient satellites especially those with a sail to use solar winds to deorbit.
https://issfd.org/ISSFD_2011/S12-Orbit.Dynamics.3-ODY3/S12_P3_ISSFD22_PF_038.pdf
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