Electrical coil reduces spinning and tumbling speed of orbiting satellites through eddy-current braking. Induction of eddy currents into skin of satellite by electromagnetic field produces torques that oppose rotation.
Magnetic Despinning System
NASA Tech Briefs ; 8 , 3
1985-01-01
Miscellaneous
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English
Engineering Index Backfile | 1967
|Satellite despinning control in the equivalent axis frame
Elsevier | 1992
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