a device on board a rotating spacecraft which reduces the amplitude of motions arising from perturbing torques NOTE - Despite the words used in the term, a nutation damper reduces precession as well as nutation. Found on http://www.electropedia.org/iev/iev.nsf/display?openform&ievref=725-11-55
a device on board a rotating spacecraft which reduces the amplitude of motions arising from perturbing torques NOTE - Despite the words used in the term, a nutation damper reduces precession as well as nutation.