What does RW stand for?

Reaction Wheel

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Samples in periodicals archive:

The thrusters are used for making small corrections to the spacecraft's course, for some attitude control functions, and for making angular momentum adjustments in the reaction wheels, which also are used for attitude control.

NASA's Cassini spacecraft successfully swaps thrusters

Theory is supplemented by examples of actual spacecraft and description of spin, dual-spin, three axis active, reaction wheel, control movement gyro, gravity gradient, and magnetic control systems.

Spacecraft attitude dynamics and control. (reprint, 1991) (CD-ROM ...

Under the contract Andrews will add the functionality to support plug and play interfaces into its existing line of spacecraft subsystem elements; which includes flight computers, power distribution units, control moment gyros (CMGs), reaction wheels, and sensors.

United States: Andrews Space Awarded Contract to Develop Plug and ...

Before coming home, the astronauts will also replace one of the observatory's reaction wheels, which keep the observatory focused on a celestial target.

Ambitious mission: hubble slated to get one heckuva tune-up. (This ...

The division's products and capabilities include fiber-optic and ring laser gyros, reaction wheel assemblies, position navigation units and fire control and digital battlefield solutions.

L-3 Communications Space & Navigation Awarded $14 Million Contract to ...

The initial underperformance of the reaction wheels was found to have occurred due to a mismatch between the onboard avionics software and the reaction wheel calibration data.

United States & Kazakhstan: Second EU test satellite in good health

Slowly, the telescope's four reaction wheels, which control its direction, had begun to fail.

Scientists to shut down space telescope

Although the reaction wheels can't be repaired, software radioed to the spacecraft in late January appears to have circumvented the problem, says project scientist George Sonneborn of NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md.

UV telescopes: one dead, one revived. (Astronomy)