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Space Shuttle Main Engine TVC actuator torque
Curious if there are references for the Shuttle Main Engine Gimballing actuator torque and the arm distance between CG of the Shuttle and the gimballing point.
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Solid state thrust vectoring
Usually thrust vectoring for the whole rocket is done by changing the orientation of individual engine(s) by hydraulic/electric actuators. So in this system the engine simply moves and with it the ...
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Falcon 9 TVC: Which engines participate in roll control?
Stage 1 of Falcon 9 uses its gimballed engines during launch to control roll, pitch, and yaw.
Only the eight peripheral engines can be used for roll control since the center engine couldn't possibly ...
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Why did the SSMEs gimbal during ignition?
During Shuttle ignition sequence:
the engines always slightly gimbal closer together as they reach full combustion (I'm guessing, from the plume appearance). Why?
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How common is the ability to compensate for a lost engine through gimbaling?
Discussing a system of regulating thrust through lighting/extinguishing engine pairs, I was met with a reply:
Really there is no need to treat engines as a pair in this context.
In fact, beyond ...
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Have any vehicles used asymmetrically variable thrust for active stabilisation? [duplicate]
Have there been any tests or attempts at developing a propulsion system that uses variable thrust for attitude control (particularly during launch)?
Conventional systems often use fully gimballed ...
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Did any rockets use differential throttling instead of gimbal?
It seems the standard approach to control of rockets during launch is either vernier thrusters, or gimbals on the main engines. Sure that works, and is quite efficient, but I wonder about a simpler ...
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SpaceX Engine Mounting / Gimbaling
Inspired by the discussion on What are the two very large "blue" cylinders attaching to the combustion chamber of each Rutherford Engine? and especially jkavalik's excellent picture of the ...
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Is it pretty much a given that all deep-space spacecraft have gimbaled engines?
I'm starting to see a pattern. Both this answer about Cassini liquid propellant engine and this answer about ion thrusters discuss a particular necessity for gimbaling engines to keep thrust aligned ...
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How does a rocket navigate during launch?
From what I understand, a rocket changes its direction during launch by gimbaling its engines (i.e. swiveling the engine nozzles so the thrust of the engine points in the correct direction).
But what ...
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