Reply to post: Re: Magnetic torque thingies...

Gyro failure fingered for sending Earth-gazing Digital Globe sat TITSUP (That's a total inability to snap usual pics)

Marcelo Rodrigues

Re: Magnetic torque thingies...

"Others have booms with weights extending down to make use of the differential gravity to keep the satellite pointed in the right direction"

Why not put the boom up? All in all, it's just the same. Isn't it?

Call the dead weight satelite and call the satelite boom. So to speak.

Altouth would be harder to point the camera at the right direction

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