Canadian Space Agency engineers
Canadian Space Agency engineers have recovered Radarsat-1, which had been in a "safe and controlled tumble" after it lost the use of a backup reaction control wheel (AW&ST Dec. 23, 2002, p. 19). CSA's Satellite Operations Directorate developed a workaround to the pitch control wheel that uses the...
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