The Equilibria of Orbiting Gyrostats with Internal Angular Momenta Along Principal Axes.

The Equilibria of Orbiting Gyrostats with Internal Angular Momenta Along Principal Axes.

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A companion paper to P-3915, offering a possible explanation for the tumbling of some gravity-gradient-stabilized satellites that use long flexible booms. At small rotor speeds, an orbiting gyrostat with rotor axis along a principal body axis has 24...