Alliance Space Guard
Posted: Mon Oct 10, 2022 4:08 pm
What does this mean?Space flight involves 6 degrees of freedom without any damping (no atmospheric drag) which makes manual piloting extremely difficult.
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What does this mean?Space flight involves 6 degrees of freedom without any damping (no atmospheric drag) which makes manual piloting extremely difficult.
Six degrees of freedom (6DOF) refers to the freedom of movement of a rigid body in three-dimensional space. Specifically, the body is free to change position as forward/backward (surge), up/down (heave), left/right (sway) translation in three perpendicular axes, combined with changes in orientation through rotation about three perpendicular axes, often termed yaw (normal axis), pitch (transverse axis), and roll (longitudinal axis).
No, no, not that. Why is manual piloting without drag supposed to be so difficult?Cody wrote: ↑Wed Oct 12, 2022 9:08 amSix degrees of freedom (6DOF) refers to the freedom of movement of a rigid body in three-dimensional space. Specifically, the body is free to change position as forward/backward (surge), up/down (heave), left/right (sway) translation in three perpendicular axes, combined with changes in orientation through rotation about three perpendicular axes, often termed yaw (normal axis), pitch (transverse axis), and roll (longitudinal axis).