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According to the article though they're already adjusting orientation to adjust thrust, but possibly they saturate too fast and they can't control it enough to
by adrianpike 7y ago
According to the article though they're already adjusting orientation to adjust thrust, but possibly they saturate too fast and they can't control it enough to truly null the deceleration?
> One such refinement involves LightSail 2's single momentum wheel, which rotates the spacecraft broadside and then edge-on to the Sun each orbit to turn the thrust from solar sailing on and off.