Nyrath
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🕑 Added 2016-08-19 20:53:30 +0000 UTC SPACE STATIONSadded new section North American Rockwell Orbital Lunar Station
http://www.projectrho.com/public_html/rocket/spacestations.php#ols
ASTRODECK
added section Manual Calculations
http://www.projectrho.com/public_html/rocket/astrodeck.php#id--Computers--Manual_Calculation
added section Slide Rules
http://www.projectrho.com/public_html/rocket/astrodeck.php#id--Computers--Slide_Rules
added section Nomograms
http://www.projectrho.com/public_html/rocket/astrodeck.php#id--Computers--Nomograms
added to Analog Computers images of the Ideal Harmonic Transformer
http://www.projectrho.com/public_html/rocket/astrodeck.php#id--Computers--Analog_Computers
added to Redundency a quote from Arthur C. Clarke's Into The Comet
http://www.projectrho.com/public_html/rocket/astrodeck.php#id--Computers--Redundency
CONTROL DECK
added new section Attitude Jets
http://www.projectrho.com/public_html/rocket/controldeck.php#rcs
added new section Thrust Vectoring
http://www.projectrho.com/public_html/rocket/controldeck.php#thrustvectoring
added new section Flywheels
http://www.projectrho.com/public_html/rocket/controldeck.php#stabilizinggyroscope
PIRACY
added quote Recruitment Starts With Arrrr
http://www.projectrho.com/public_html/rocket/pirate.php#piraterecruit
ADVANCED DESIGNS
added a quote Prophylock
http://www.projectrho.com/public_html/rocket/advdesign.php#prophylock
FUTURE HISTORY
added to Eugenics a quote Homo Sapiens Sapiens
http://www.projectrho.com/public_html/rocket/futurehistory.php#homosapienssapiens
PRELIMINARY NOTES
added an annotated quote from The McAndrew Chronicles
http://www.projectrho.com/public_html/rocket/prelimnotes.php#mcandrewchronicles
REAL DESIGNS A-M
added Nick Stevens illustration of the Dornier Space Tug
http://www.projectrho.com/public_html/rocket/realdesigns2.php#stevensdornier
Comments
Nyrath
You make a very good point! I will add that and give you credit
Michael Hutson
An engineering note regarding Vectored Thrusting: it is vital that your gimbaling mechanism be designed in such a way that the passive position for the nozzle while under thrust is centered; that is, it takes a force opposed to the main thrust to vector the nozzle. Otherwise any failure of the gimbaling mechanism will tend to throw your rocket wildly off balance, with unhappy results.
