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📡 Gravity-Gradient Satellite Libration Lab (2D)

2D gravity-gradient lab: a boom satellite on a Kepler orbit librates about the local vertical. Change boom length, tip mass, damping, eccentricity and disturbance torque, with phase portrait, potential well and six numerical checks including the elliptic-integral period.

Space & Astronomy2DModerate60 FPS📱 Mobile-adapted⇄ 3D version
Gravity-Gradient Satellite Libration Lab (2D) ↗ Open standalone
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2D gravity-gradient lab: a boom satellite on a Kepler orbit librates about the local vertical. Change boom length, tip mass, damping, eccentricity and disturbance torque, with phase portrait, potential well and six numerical checks including the elliptic-integral period.

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2D · HTML5 Canvas 2D · 60 FPS target · runs fully client-side, no install

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