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Old October 8th 18, 10:13 PM posted to sci.astro.amateur
RichA[_6_]
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Default Hayabusa probes. How is it they hop?

On Monday, 8 October 2018 17:05:04 UTC-4, Quadibloc wrote:
On Saturday, September 29, 2018 at 10:34:44 PM UTC-6, Chris L Peterson wrote:
On Sat, 29 Sep 2018 15:23:36 -0700 (PDT), RichA
wrote:


What's the mechanism?


Reaction wheels.


Here's an article about it:

https://www.space.com/41941-hayabusa...ping-tech.html

John Savard


Interesting a 3000ft wide rock can generate much gravity at all.