There's nothing new in this business: http://www.zarya.info/Gallimaufry/Cosmos149.php Bob Christy **************************** Ted Molczan wrote: "..... this behaviour may be similar to that of a shuttlecock: the nearly full fuel tanks at the main propulsion module end of the spacecraft are analogous to the cork of a shuttlecock; the solar arrays at the opposite end are analogous to the feathers. Here is a thesis, "Passive Attitude Stabilization For Small Satellites", by Samir Ahmed Rawashdeh, based on using precisely this phenomenon to provide attitude control for a cubesat.." Bob Christy _______________________________________________ Seesat-l mailing list http://mailman.satobs.org/mailman/listinfo/seesat-l
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