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Reaction Wheels (Torque Rods) are ways of controlling a vehicle in a microgravity environment by storing angular momentum in spinning disks and discharging it as necessary to apply control forces. The team attempted to implement this in the 2018 Reaction Wheel Payload System.
Theory of Operation
The relevant starting equations are:
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https://ntrs.nasa.gov/archive/nasa/casi.ntrs.nasa.gov/19940008667.pdf
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