Tag: Off Topic
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Coming Attractions
I know, I just went through almost all of October without a single plot or update. I wish that wasn’t the case because I have actually learned some pretty cool stuff (I can now make some sweet 3D orbital trajectory plots), but the semester has been brutal and I haven’t had time to make a…
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Reaction Wheels Rolling
Reaction wheel functionality is slowly coming along in the attitude dynamics simulator. There’s some interesting changes with wheels that I had forgotten about since torque rods were the focus of pretty much all of my spacecraft simulation work. I’ve done some wheel based control simulations for high altitude balloons, but the scope of that was quite…
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Pluto Flyby
Awesome video from NASA showing the view from New Horizons as it passed by Pluto last month. Exploration missions are the best!
Roshan Radhakrishnan 