Skylab Orbital Workshop Thruster Attitude Control System
Historical integrated cold-gas Thruster Attitude Control System on the Skylab Orbital Workshop. NASA documents the TACS as the workshop-mounted system for primary attitude control before activation of the Apollo Telescope Mount control-moment gyroscopes and for backup or supplemental control during momentum desaturation, maneuvers, and docking transients. No individual thruster model, quantity, propellant species, or launch-stage propulsion is asserted.
Identity
- Aliases
- Skylab TACSSkylab OWS TACSSkylab Orbital Workshop TACS
- Domains
- spaceflight
- Identity Level
- integrated-system
- Kind
- integrated-propulsion-system
- Name
- Skylab Orbital Workshop Thruster Attitude Control System
- Status
- historical
Details
- Description
- Historical integrated cold-gas Thruster Attitude Control System on the Skylab Orbital Workshop. NASA documents the TACS as the workshop-mounted system for primary attitude control before activation of the Apollo Telescope Mount control-moment gyroscopes and for backup or supplemental control during momentum desaturation, maneuvers, and docking transients. No individual thruster model, quantity, propellant species, or launch-stage propulsion is asserted.
Links
- Official Url
- https://ntrs.nasa.gov/citations/19740022193
Assets & Meta
- Creation Time
- August 25, 2026 at 18:26:34 UTC
- Updated Time
- August 25, 2026 at 18:26:34 UTC
Other
- Search Name
- Skylab Orbital Workshop Thruster Attitude Control System Skylab TACS Skylab OWS TACS Skylab Orbital Workshop TACS
- Sources
- Accessed Date
- 2026-08-25
- Note
- Documents preflight activities and mission support for the Skylab Thruster Attitude Control System.
- Publisher
- NASA Technical Reports Server
- Title
- Skylab thruster attitude control system
- Accessed Date
- 2026-08-25
- Note
- Describes a cold-gas thruster attitude control system located on the Orbital Workshop.
- Publisher
- NASA Technical Reports Server
- Title
- Skylab attitude and pointing control system
- Accessed Date
- 2026-08-25
- Note
- States that the Orbital Workshop contains the thruster attitude control system used after separation until ATM control-moment gyroscope activation.
- Publisher
- NASA Technical Reports Server
- Title
- Skylab Operations Handbook
- Accessed Date
- 2026-08-25
- Note
- Covers the Orbital Workshop thrust attitude control system as a named subsystem.
- Publisher
- NASA Technical Reports Server
- Title
- MSFC Skylab Orbital Workshop, volume 2