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by danielbarla 1739 days ago
From [1] attitude, in the context of spacecraft, means:

> Attitude is part of the description of how an object is placed in the space it occupies. Attitude and position fully describe how an object is placed in space.

So, basically, its relative orientation and rotation.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attitude_control