4 ms·
I remember learning about Hubble telescope losing its gyroscopes in one axis so it couldn’t balance and was effectively dead until someone clever figured out yo
by aardvarkr 2y ago
I remember learning about Hubble telescope losing its gyroscopes in one axis so it couldn’t balance and was effectively dead until someone clever figured out you could use the pressure from the sun to act as a third axis of motion to keep the craft stable. Sometimes it’s not just the stuff onboard but the ingenuity of the engineers that saves the day