Re: [amsat-bb] Torque Coil turns vanish?

I am no rocket scientist, but wouldn't the earths magnetic fields tend

to bias those diodes on as the satellite cuts through them, creating subtle drag?

Yes and no. In theory some, but in practice, no. It takes a coil that is thousands of meters in length (usually called a "tether") to generate any appreciable torque. And since torque goes as the area, then our coil which is 10,000 times smaller would be 0.000000001 as effective or something like that. Maybe Bob