• Sylver@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    It should come back online around October 15th, when it auto-corrects it’s own orientation

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      1 year ago

      How is it able to do that? Wouldn’t that use up it’s limited RCS mass? How does it know where to point?

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        1 year ago

        Usually it’s accomplished with gyroscopes, not RCS fuels. It has a schedule where it auto-orients itself to point back toward Earth, that next scheduled self-fix is in October.

        As for how it knows what exact point to look at, I’m not sure! Maybe we’re constantly streaming a radio signal for it to see