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ElCosmosCZ píše:Mám jednu otázku: Proč sonda New Horizons na animacích rotuje?

Rotace je nejjednodušší stabilizace dráhy sondy během letu... funkce gyroskopu

Edit: Dugi předbíhá!

Nejde o stabilizaci drahy, s tou zadna rotace nic neudela, ale o stabilizaci polohy. Napriklad pro zamereni anteny, proto jsou vsechny vysoceziskove parabolicke anteny konstruovane v ose.

It almost didn’t turn out that way. When Voyagers 1 and 2 were sent on their respective tours of the solar system, NASA considered sending Voyager 1 to Pluto after the spacecraft’s Saturn encounter. But the flyby path that would bend Voyager’s trajectory toward Pluto precluded a visit of Saturn’s moon, Titan, a tantalizing world in its own right and the only moon in our solar system known to have a stable atmosphere.

“Voyager-Pluto was a real possibility,” said Jonathan Lunine, a Cornell University astronomer who helped define Pluto mission objectives in the 1990s. Lunine, speaking to reporters at a 2014 New Horizons briefing, said the decision to fly past Titan was critical in gaining support for future Saturn missions. “Without the Voyager-Titan mission, it would have been very hard to make the case for the Cassini-Huygens mission—arguably one of the most successful planetary missions in history,” he said.