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Retric on April 26, 2013 | parent | context | favorite | on: NASA has three smartphones orbiting the earth as m...

There generally on the bottom stage so they don't reach Anything close to orbit. But what there really useful for is dampening rotations which is hard to fix with a thrust vectoring system.

_yid9 on April 26, 2013 [–]

Only on single engine stages; with 2 or more engines, damping rotation is no problem.

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