Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!iuvax!cica!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!mcvax!hp4nl!eutrc3!exiphm
From: exiphm@eutrc3.urc.tue.nl (h.munk)
Newsgroups: sci.space
Subject: Re: Magellan Status for 07/17/89 (Forwarded)
Summary: What is momentum wheel desaturation
Message-ID: <805@eutrc3.urc.tue.nl>
Date: 19 Jul 89 12:21:02 GMT
References: <28782@ames.arc.nasa.gov>
Organization: Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands
Lines: 8

In article <28782@ames.arc.nasa.gov>, yee@trident.arc.nasa.gov (Peter E. Yee) writes:
> continues to perform twice daily momentum wheel desaturations
                                   ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Forive me my ignorance, but what is "momentum wheel desaturation",
and why is it done ?


Harm Munk