Engines in Juno have a lot of gimbal and that's nice and all, but not all rockets gimbal their engines and I don't even know how you gimbal aerospikes. I'd like it to be possible to enable differential thrust in engine clusters.

For those who don't know, this is a technique where different engines will throttle differently to push the rocket unevenly. This is a cheaper way to do yaw and pitch without vectoring the engines.

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    It can be done, but it requires manually editing the input and using trigonometry to determine the strength of yaw/pitch inputs per engine. It can probably be done with some position detecting algorithm relative to the centre of mass, but I'm not sure this can be done without sticking a flight programme in every engine.

    one year ago

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