Watching a video on how Hubble attitude control works I saw one portion on magnetorquers. It has four for redundancy but they are angled in a way that looks awkward from a packaging viewpoint, so what is the purpose for the way they are installed? I understand they need to be orthogonal, but there seem to be easier ways to do that than this.
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$\begingroup$ slightly related: What were the relative orientations of the Hubble Space Telescope's three star cameras, six rate gyros and four reaction wheels optimized for exactly? and Hubble's one-gyro mode; how does it work for attitude control, stabilization, and slewing? $\endgroup$ – uhoh Feb 23 at 11:21
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