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I'm trying to find an article with the exact story, but during the building of some of the early large satellites (something like the MilStar satellites [0][1])
by dr_orpheus 5y ago
I'm trying to find an article with the exact story, but during the building of some of the early large satellites (something like the MilStar satellites [0][1]) they realized it would be really handy to be to rotate the satellite to work on it from different angles. So the satellite manufacturers repurposed rotary train car dumpers [2] in order to rotate the giant satellites.
[0] https://external-content.duckduckgo.com/iu/?u=http%3A%2F%2Fclaudelafleur.qc.ca%2Fimages%2Fmilstar6.jpg&f=1&nofb=1 https://external-content.duckduckgo.com/iu/?u=http%3A%2F%2Fc...
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milstar https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milstar
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rotary_car_dumper https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rotary_car_dumper