Simulate three-dimensional spacecraft maneuvers like landing on another planet or docking with a space station with this fun model! Written instructions to build your own and use it for a science project are available on the Science Buddies website: https://www.sciencebuddies.org/science-fair-projects/project-ideas/SpaceEx_p050/space-exploration/cable-driven-spacecraft-motion-simulator?ytid=ePFn5TiChhY&ytsrc=description
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this is a cable driven spacecraft motion simulator scientists use simulators like these to move model spacecraft around in three dimensions and practice Maneuvers like landing on another planet or docking with a space station to explain how this works let’s simplify and first demonstrate it in two Dimensions here I have a model satellite suspended by two strings so it can move around in a vertical plane but it can’t move back and forth its motion is constrained to a two-dimensional space instead of three dimensions to control the satellite’s motion in that vertical plane I can pull on or loosen the two cables however the relationship between the cable motion and the satellite motion is not very straightforward for example if you’re used to playing video games you might think that to move up normally you would push up on the joystick or Arrow pad on a controller but in this case I don’t have a single input that can make the satellite move up if I want it to move up I have to pull on both cables at the same time if I wanted to go down I have to loosen both of them and if I wanted to move left to right I have to pull on one while loosening the other one so I don’t have a direct relationship between my two inputs and the up and down and left to right motion of my satellite if I pull on just one of the cables while holding the other one steady then the satellite moves diagonally
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