attitude-control thruster

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• Attitude dynamics and control — The attitude of a body is its orientation as perceived in a certain frame of reference; providing a vector along which a spacecraft is pointing is a description of its attitude. Dynamics is the term for the modeling of changing conditions, due to …   Wikipedia

• Thruster — A thruster is a small propulsive device used by spacecraft and watercraft for station keeping, attitude control, or long duration low thrust acceleration.Thruster (surfing) is a surfboard fin design.Spacecraft thrusters,*Electrohydrodynamic… …   Wikipedia

• thruster — /thrus teuhr/, n. 1. a person or thing that thrusts. 2. Fox Hunting. a rider who keeps in the front of the field. 3. Aerospace. a small rocket attached to a spacecraft and used to control its attitude or translational motion. [1590 1600; THRUST + …   Universalium

• thruster — thrust•er [[t]ˈθrʌs tər[/t]] n. 1) rkt a small rocket attached to a spacecraft and used for producting thrust to control attitude or translational motion 2) a propeller located in a ship s bow or stern to provide added maneuverability, as when… …   From formal English to slang

• thruster — /ˈθrʌstə/ (say thrustuh) noun 1. someone or something that thrusts. 2. Astronautics a small rocket used to control the attitude of a spacecraft; vernier rocket. 3. a surfboard with three fins, these designed so as to give it a high degree of… …  

• Vernier thruster — A vernier thruster is a thruster used on a spacecraft for attitude control. It is a smaller thrust motor than main attitude control motors and is used for fine adjustments to the attitude or velocity of a spacecraft. A vernier rocket is a smaller …   Wikipedia

• Ion thruster — An ion thruster is a form of electric propulsion used for spacecraft propulsion that creates thrust by accelerating ions. Ion thrusters are characterized by how they accelerate the ions, using either electrostatic or electromagnetic force.… …   Wikipedia

• Reaction control system — A reaction control system, abbreviated RCS, is a subsystem of a spacecraft. Its purpose is attitude control and steering. An RCS system is capable of providing small amounts of thrust in any desired direction or combination of directions. An RCS… …   Wikipedia

• Pulsed plasma thruster — Pulsed plasma thrusters are a method of spacecraft propulsion which use an arc of electric current adjacent to a solid propellant, to produce a quick and repeatable burst of impulse. PPTs are excellent for attitude control, and for main… …   Wikipedia

• Reaction Control System — Les propulseurs RCS sur le module lunaire Apollo. Les propulseurs RCS sur l …   Wikipédia en Français

• Mir — This article is about the Soviet/Russian space station. For other uses, see Mir (disambiguation). Mir …   Wikipedia