GoodyPower t1_jd331cu wrote on March 21, 2023 at 2:20 PM Reply to comment by Zkootz in 10 months after its launch by SpaceX, a $10,000 satellite made by students with off-the-shelf materials and powered by 48 Energizer AA batteries, is not only working, it's demonstrating a way to reduce space junk by lughnasadh I believe gyros can/could orient satellites especially those with a sail to use solar winds to deorbit. https://issfd.org/ISSFD_2011/S12-Orbit.Dynamics.3-ODY3/S12_P3_ISSFD22_PF_038.pdf Permalink Parent 2
GoodyPower t1_jd331cu wrote
Reply to comment by Zkootz in 10 months after its launch by SpaceX, a $10,000 satellite made by students with off-the-shelf materials and powered by 48 Energizer AA batteries, is not only working, it's demonstrating a way to reduce space junk by lughnasadh
I believe gyros can/could orient satellites especially those with a sail to use solar winds to deorbit.
https://issfd.org/ISSFD_2011/S12-Orbit.Dynamics.3-ODY3/S12_P3_ISSFD22_PF_038.pdf