A reaction control system (RCS) is a spacecraft system that uses thrusters to provide attitude control and translation. Alternatively, reaction wheels...
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A reaction wheel (RW) is used primarily by spacecraft for three-axis attitude control, and does not require rockets or external applicators of torque...
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Apollo command and service module (redirect from Service Propulsion System)
forward compartment contained two reaction control system thrusters, the docking tunnel, and the Earth Landing System. The inner pressure vessel housed...
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Lockheed NF-104A (section Reaction control system)
modifications included a small supplementary rocket engine and a reaction control system for flight in the stratosphere. During the test program, the maximum...
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Thrusters may also be referred to as mass-expulsion control (MEC) systems, or reaction control systems (RCS). The space probes Voyager 1 and Voyager 2 employ...
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Space Shuttle orbiter (section Attitude control system)
Reaction Control System (RCS) was composed of 44 small liquid-fueled rocket thrusters and their very sophisticated fly-by-wire flight control system,...
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Reaction–diffusion systems are mathematical models that correspond to several physical phenomena. The most common is the change in space and time of the...
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North American X-15 (section Cockpit and pilot systems)
Augmentation System" (SAS) sent inputs to the aerodynamic controls to help the pilot maintain attitude control. The Reaction Control System (RCS) could...
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surroundings Environmental control system (aircraft), which controls environmental factors within an aircraft Reaction control system of a spacecraft, assisting...
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burn time. These pods also contained the Orbiter's aft set of reaction control system (RCS) engines, and so were referred to as OMS/RCS pods. The OM...
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Thermodynamic reaction control or kinetic reaction control in a chemical reaction can decide the composition in a reaction product mixture when competing...
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Boeing Starliner (category Boeing spacecraft and space launch systems)
hot-fire testing included fuel and helium tanks, reaction control system, orbital maneuvering, and attitude-control thrusters, launch abort engines and all necessary...
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Service Propulsion System. Those spacecraft and the Space Shuttle (among others) used hypergolic propellants for their reaction control systems. The trend among...
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delayed due to a leak of helium, which is used to pressurize the reaction control system thrusters in the Starliner service module. The second launch attempt...
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orbital station-keeping, attitude control, or long-duration, low-thrust acceleration, often as part of a reaction control system. A vernier thruster or gimbaled...
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derivative that was once used in the orbital maneuvering system (OMS) and reaction control system (RCS) engines of NASA's Space Shuttle, which used MMH and...
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The Orbit Attitude and Maneuvering System (OAMS) was a reaction control system used in Earth orbit by the Project Gemini spacecraft. It provided both...
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to 26 ft/s). In 2006, Rosetta suffered a leak in its reaction control system (RCS). The system, which consists of 24 bipropellant 10-newton thrusters...
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shield, reaction control system to provide attitude control, forward docking hatch, side hatch, five windows, and a parachute recovery system. It was...
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Aircraft principal axes (category Attitude control)
roll. On a spacecraft, the movements are usually produced by a reaction control system consisting of small rocket thrusters used to apply asymmetrical...
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important civilian and military helicopters. Bell also developed the Reaction Control System for the Mercury Spacecraft, North American X-15, and Bell Rocket...
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VSHORAD missile incorporates integrated avionics and miniaturized Reaction Control System (RCS) to increase mid-air maneuverability. The missile uses a state-of-art...
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Vernier thruster (category Spacecraft attitude control)
complement larger attitude control thrusters, or may be a part of the reaction control system. The name is derived from vernier calipers (named after Pierre...
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Southern Railway (1942–1982) Reaction control system, a system of thrusters used to maneuver spacecraft Reentry control system Regional Connectivity Scheme...
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covered with an ablative heat shield, and had its own reaction control system (RCS) engines to control its attitude and steer its atmospheric entry path....
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attitude control, the third stage did not have an attitude control system, and instead relied upon spin-stabilisation along with a reaction control system. The...
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place on the sixth day, though it was postponed one orbit as the reaction control system (RCS) thruster burn needed to settle the reactants in their tanks...
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launch vehicle. Draco and SuperDraco combine the functions of a reaction control system and main propulsive engine.[citation needed] Draco thrusters generate...
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Skylab 3 Command/Service Module (CSM) developed problems in its reaction control system (RCS) thrusters while docked to the station. On the ground, space...
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Auxiliary Propulsion System that also had ullage functions. Ullage is often a secondary function of the reaction control system such as on the Apollo...
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