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Comments by "Lawrence D’Oliveiro" (@lawrencedoliveiro9104) on "" video.
You’ll notice the ISS has a “bottom” side that always faces the Earth, and a “top” side that always faces away. So it rotates once per orbit. This could get complicated if you had a spinning section, due to the potential for gyroscopic effects. You could minimize this by arranging for the plane of rotation to be parallel to the plane of the orbit. I’m not sure if this is always achievable, though. A spacecraft in space would most likely need to be able to change its orientation. You could cancel out the gyroscopic effects by having two counter-rotating sections. But you would still need to deal with sideways forces on the bearings.
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