reaction wheel
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type of flywheel used for three axis attitude control in spacecraft
Wikidata facts
- Subclass of
- flywheel
- Part of
- reaction control system
- Has part
- gimbal
- Image
- Tetraederanordnung Reaktionsraeder.jpg
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- Commons category
- Reaction wheels
- different from
- control moment gyroscope
- used by
- artificial satellite
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