After years of being billed as the next great revolutionary means of propulsion, flywheels may finally be ready for prime time. Aside from a few modest successes, flywheels have not lived up to this ...

Powering a satellite with batteries can limit the spacecraft's operational life to about five years. A mechanical alternative, the flywheel, can store more energy and be reused more often than ...

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