Re: Kollibri

From: Rainer.Kresken@esa.int
Date: Tue Jul 16 2002 - 05:36:08 EDT

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>Is the counterweight/counterweight boom used to change the
>rotatational/spin rate of the satellite?  Or perhaps to add attitude
>stability?

The term counterweight is misleading here. The purpose of this
item is, as you supposed, to orientate the satellite parallel
to the gravity gradient vector. From the diagram, I assume that
weight is pointing to the local zenith.

Rainer


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