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  2. Reaction control system - Wikipedia

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    Reaction control systems are capable of providing small amounts of thrust in any desired direction or combination of directions. An RCS is also capable of providing torque to allow control of rotation (roll, pitch, and yaw). [2] Reaction control systems often use combinations of large and small thrusters, to allow different levels of response.

  3. List of NASA's flight control positions - Wikipedia

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    Also responsible for propulsion systems such as the service propulsion system and reaction control system (RCS). Integrated communications officer (INCO) The INCO was responsible for all data, voice and video communications systems, including monitoring the configuration of in-flight communications and instrumentation systems.

  4. Bell Aircraft - Wikipedia

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    Bell designed and built the Reaction Control system for Project Mercury's Redstone command module and a similar system was incorporated into the North American X-15 spaceplane. NASA selected Bell to develop and built the Lunar Landing Research Vehicle (LLRV) , three of which were built in the early 1960s to train the Apollo astronauts to land ...

  5. Orbit Attitude and Maneuvering System - Wikipedia

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    The system was also used to push the spacecraft away from the spent second stage of the Titan II launch vehicle on first reaching orbit. The eight rotational control engines were mounted off the spacecraft's center of mass around the aft section of the Equipment Module, pointed at 90 degree positions up, down, left and right.

  6. R-4D - Wikipedia

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    The R-4D is a small hypergolic rocket engine, originally designed by Marquardt Corporation for use as a reaction control system thruster on vehicles of the Apollo crewed Moon landing program. Aerojet Rocketdyne manufactures and markets modern versions of the R-4D.

  7. Reaction wheel - Wikipedia

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    A small reaction wheel viewed in profile A momentum/reaction wheel comprising part of a high-accuracy Conical Earth Sensor to maintain a satellite's precise attitude. A reaction wheel (RW) is an electric motor attached to a flywheel, which, when its rotation speed is changed, causes a counter-rotation proportionately through conservation of angular momentum. [1]

  8. Kinetic reaction control - Wikipedia

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  9. Centaur (rocket stage) - Wikipedia

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    The reaction control system (RCS) also provides ullage and consists of twenty hydrazine monopropellant thrusters located around the stage in two 2-thruster pods and four 4-thruster pods. For propellant, 150 kg (340 lb) of Hydrazine is stored in a pair of bladder tanks and fed to the RCS thrusters with pressurized helium gas, which is also used ...