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Space

NASA LADEE’s Reaction Wheels Online After Successful Launch

Tuesday, September 10th, 2013

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The reaction wheels of NASA’s Lunar Atmosphere and Dust Environment Explorer (LADEE) that position and stabilize the spacecraft were brought back online and LADEE acquired its safe-mode attitude profile after a successful launch Friday evening, NASA said in a statement. During technical checkouts Friday evening, the LADEE spacecraft commanded itself to shut down the reaction wheels as a result of fault protection limits put in place before launch to safeguard the wheels, NASA said. The limits that caused the wheels…

Congress

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