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by 6510 1407 days ago
> You can turn a satellite by spinning up a flywheel and then reabsorbing the angular momentum when you reach the desired orientation.

Wouldn't 2 of those allow for 2 different centers of rotation. If so, we can just walk though space.

:-)

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No, the center of rotation is always that of the full system. It's not relative to which flywheel happens to be spinning.