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This reminds me of a spacecraft navigation system that employed an almost perfect sphere, that floated inside the centre of chamber that employed a detection sy
by basicplus2 5y ago
This reminds me of a spacecraft navigation system that employed an almost perfect sphere, that floated inside the centre of chamber that employed a detection system that corrected the spacecrafts direction to keep the sphere in the centre of the chamber. On the drawings it was referred to as the space crafts "consciousness"
Unfortunately i cannot find any reference to it anywhere.
- sgtnoodle 5y agoI remember that too. Maybe this? https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gravity_Probe_B https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gravity_Probe_B
- basicplus2 5y agoThats cool! but not that.. the one I an thinking of used the device for course correction over vast distances
- dogma1138 5y agoSounds like AIRS https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advanced_Inertial_Reference_Sphere https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advanced_Inertial_Reference_... Basically floating gyros, pretty common design for IMUs.