[Cristian Vladescu]

Cristian Vladescu  asked the Naked Scientists:
   Hello,

I would like to ask something about Probe B that Ms. Carolin Crawford talked about in the last show.

When NASA launch into orbit Probe B, they probably gave it a rotation on it's own axis against the rotation of the orbit around the Earth, so that the telescope and gyroscope on board would point to a fix point in the sky. How they did that with such a high precision that the satellite wouldn't lose it's orientation over long period of time ? Or did they made small in orbit adjustments from time to time? But wouldn't that affect the result of the experiment?

Thank you!
What do you think?