Simulation of a two-giro gravity attitude control system - Edward Zajac

Simulation of a two-giro gravity attitude control system - Edward Zajac from Orange Animation on YouTube.

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1963 "Simulation of a two-giro gravity attitude control system" by Edward Zajac at Bell Labs Edward E. Zajac, a scientist at Bell Telephone Laboratory (BTL), created a film called "Simulation of a two-giro gravity attitude control system" in 1963. In this computer generated film, Zajac demonstrate that a satellite could be stabilized to always have a side facing the earth as it orbited. He created the animation on an IBM 7090 mainframe computer Stromberg-Calson 4020 film recorder, programmed in FORTRAN.