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Computer animation

A two gyro gravity Gradient attitude control System

1963
Murray Hill, New Jersey, United States

Edward Zajac produced one of the first computer-generated films at Bell Labs in 1963, titled A Two Gyro Gravity Gradient Attitude Control System, which demonstrated that a satellite could be stabilized to always have a side facing the Earth as it orbited.


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