Spacecraft
姿控系统
Reaction control system
Small thrusters that point a spacecraft.
ISS thrusters fire in millisecond pulses.
Related terms
- Satellite — Anything, natural or artificial, orbiting a body.
- Payload — Whatever a rocket carries: a satellite, a crew vehicle, an experiment.
- Payload fairing — The nose shell protecting the payload, jettisoned above the atmosphere.
- Stage — A self-contained propulsion section, dropped when spent.