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About stabilizing a space rocket using a pendullum
There exists a competition called Google Lunar X Prize whose main objective is sending a rocket to the Moon. One of the contenders, team ARCA, is ready to launch a rocket (not a Moon rocket) about which they claim to be passively stabilized in vacuum by the swinging movement of some pendulums (the lower stages of the rocket).
A self explicative nice animation regarding the rocket of ARCA and its stabilization method can be downloaded from the following address:
VIDEO:
http://www.arcaspace.ro/
QUESTION: Do you believe that the stabilization procedure in the animation could work in vacuum, at least theoretically?
There exists a competition called Google Lunar X Prize whose main objective is sending a rocket to the Moon. One of the contenders, team ARCA, is ready to launch a rocket (not a Moon rocket) about which they claim to be passively stabilized in vacuum by the swinging movement of some pendulums (the lower stages of the rocket).
A self explicative nice animation regarding the rocket of ARCA and its stabilization method can be downloaded from the following address:
VIDEO:
http://www.arcaspace.ro/
QUESTION: Do you believe that the stabilization procedure in the animation could work in vacuum, at least theoretically?
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