3-axis stabilized spacecraft
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3 axis stabilization is a design feature of most modern spacecraft whereby the spacecraft utilizes sensor readings to determine how actuators on the spacecraft can be used to keep it in a desired attitude, or orientation in space.[citation needed]
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- "Attitude and Articulation Control Subsystems (AACS)". Caltech's Jet Propulsion Laboratory. http://www2.jpl.nasa.gov/basics/bsf11-2.html. Retrieved 2008-08-02.
