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Bernhard |
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What does "saturated" mean? |
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Hello,
in books about spacecraft technics I often see a sentence like "when the gyroscope is saturated, controlability is lost along the axis of saturation".
What does this mean? Has the gyroscope stored so much energy that it will jump out of its mounting points when it is used more or is it hard to control like a gyrotwister at high speed? Or is saturation just a bad orientation of the gyroscope, so that it cannot produce a torque in the needed direction?
I have found saturation limits which I can use for calculation, but I would like to know how to interpret them.
Best regards,
Bernhard |
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30 April 2009
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