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To: RightWhale
Spacecraft have control thrusters pointing along 3 axes and they can impart a 3-D acceleration.

But at constant thrust, the acceleration is in one direction as the sum of the vectors.
141 posted on 01/08/2003 6:36:34 PM PST by aruanan
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To: aruanan
at constant thrust

Why the constraint?

160 posted on 01/09/2003 9:23:06 AM PST by RightWhale
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