reaction wheel assembly

C29161
concept

A reaction wheel assembly is a spacecraft attitude control device that uses one or more high-speed spinning wheels whose speed is varied to generate precise torques and reorient the spacecraft without expending propellant.

All labels observed (1)

Label Occurrences
reaction wheel assembly canonical 1

Description generation (CDg)

The one-sentence description above was generated by prompting gpt-5.1 with the class name and this instruction.

Instruction
generate a one-sentence description for a given conceptual class.
# Response Format
Return only the sentence: "Description: [one-sentence description of the conceptional class]"
Input
Class: reaction wheel assembly
Generated description
A reaction wheel assembly is a spacecraft attitude control device that uses one or more high-speed spinning wheels whose speed is varied to generate precise torques and reorient the spacecraft without expending propellant.

Instances (1)

Instance Via concept surface
Reaction Wheel Assembly on Hubble Space Telescope