Sentences with phrase «working reaction wheels»

Such plans would use the spacecraft and its single instrument to perform different kinds of experiments that would not require the exquisite pointing precision that three working reaction wheels gave Kepler.

Not exact matches

But by May, two of these reaction wheels had stopped working, ending Kepler's ability to spot planets.

That left only two reaction wheels, not enough for Kepler to keep up its planet - hunting work.

She listed half a dozen systems or components on Cassini that stopped working during its lifetime, including some of the probe's thrusters and a reaction wheel, both of which are necessary to steer the spacecraft.

The wheels work a lot like gyroscopes: When a reaction wheel turns, the spacecraft counter-rotates according to the law of conservation of angular momentum.

The main reason is that working a cell phone behind the wheel can delay reaction times by as much as 20 percent.