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Comment by brcmthrowaway | Hacker News Reader
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brcmthrowaway
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Does each engine have 6 degree of freedom to point its jet?
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lpribis
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No, each individual engine has 2 DoF (x-axis and y-axis rotation) which correspond to torque on x and y plane to the rocket. They need to use more than one at once (three in starship's case) pointing in different directions to get z axis torque.
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