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The James Webb Space Telescope – making 300 points...
Why would it lose orientation? It has reaction wheels.
racnid
on Jan 9, 2022
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The simple answer is that you eventually have to do thruster burns to dump momentum from reaction wheels; they can't keep absorbing momentum forever. It also needs the fuel to adjust it's orbit every so often and keep it on station.
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