Nutation
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You look at it from HERE in the game screen
Explanation of the Nutation Control Game:
You fire the thrusters (small rockets) to decrease the spacecraft nutation, and to compensate for the Earth drift.

READ Tips & Tricks BELOW to learn to fly like an ACE !

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The Earth
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YOUR GOALS:

  • Your prime goal is the Spacecraft safety. The nutation might damage the long flexible booms if the oscillation gets too wild.

  • Then you have to maintain the radio link with the Earth. When the spacecraft points outside the blue circle you lose contact, and you cannot command the thrusters to fire.
To save fuel, you have to try and do both at the same time. Ideally, you should fire at the right time to stop the nutation, but only if the direction is also good to move the centre of the rosette towards the Earth. Sometimes this is as difficult as it sounds!   And you may need to expend some extra fuel to keep things under control.

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Nutation Game copyright 1996 Raúl García-Pérez.