That is how a gyro-stabilizer works, yes.name_here wrote:Well, angular momentum is conserved, so a gyro system can't reduce your total quantity of spinning. It might be able to spin something you're holding so you stop spinning.
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Which is what i was getting at.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=gdAmEEAiJWo
Aren't gyroscopes used in sattelites and missles to make them point the right way?
www.youtube.com/watch?v=gdAmEEAiJWo
Aren't gyroscopes used in sattelites and missles to make them point the right way?
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A gyroscopic control rig works a little differently from the little toy gyroscopes: it changes the wheel's spin and its orientation in order to move you, rather than to keep you steady. However, there's no reason you couldn't use that as a stabilising rig.
The main thing a gyrostabiliser needs to be is heavy, and this normally means it's large. This is therefore admirably suited to the purpose of not being stealth gear.
The main thing a gyrostabiliser needs to be is heavy, and this normally means it's large. This is therefore admirably suited to the purpose of not being stealth gear.
Yes, but they're generally different beasts. Satellites use gyros for maneuver. Missiles use them as a sensor.Stahlseele wrote:Which is what i was getting at.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=gdAmEEAiJWo
Aren't gyroscopes used in sattelites and missles to make them point the right way?
Vebyast wrote:Here's a fun target for Major Creation: hydrazine. One casting every six seconds at CL9 gives you a bit more than 40 liters per second, which is comparable to the flow rates of some small, but serious, rocket engines. Six items running at full blast through a well-engineered engine will put you, and something like 50 tons of cargo, into space. Alternatively, if you thrust sideways, you will briefly be a fireball screaming across the sky at mach 14 before you melt from atmospheric friction.