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Questions regarding the craft that house humans or equipment during space exploration.
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For the purposes of attitude control, do gyrodynes need to be placed at the center of mass?
control moment gyroscopes, are spinning wheels that are torqued at their axis (a motor pushes the axis to make it a different direction) for the purposes of creating counter-torque that rotates the whole spacecraft …
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Why is space junk so persistent in LEO?
From a similar post: How much of a problem is space junk, and how can we clean it up?
I'm wondering why space junk seems to be ever-present. Most of it seems to be in low Earth orbit in the first plac …
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How are spacecraft engineered to prevent overheating?
So how is a spacecraft engineered to not overheat? Especially for something like a solar sensor or solar panel, which cannot be covered by a reflective sheet. …