Posted on 08/12/2021 3:35:52 PM PDT by BenLurkin
You watched too much StarTrek. LOL
Drop it on China as payment for COVID-19.
why burn it up in Earth’s atmosphere? send it to Mercury where it can orbit the Sun and send back pretty pictures
ISS is at 7.6 to 7.7 kms minimum earth C3 velocity is 11.19 kms you have to add at least 3.49kms not counting gravity losses being deep in the gravity well to climb out of it. Using the very best chemical engines available namely the SSME H2/O2 former shuttle engines with a vacuum ISP of 452 seconds it would take well over a thousand tonnes of prop to get that much Delta V. Starship tanker version in fully reusable mode is billed to be 150 tonnes per trip with 250 per expendable mode. So at least a dozen fully loaded starship tankers to make that kinda Delta V even possible but remember all that fuel needs tanks and with a tank weight fraction of even a gallon tank like 2% you are not accelerating 450 tonnes to C3 you have to take the tanks and the SSME engines with you just those tanks and the engines will add a other hundred tonnes of mass needed to be injected to C3. In short no way with current technology could the ISS be injected to solar orbit let alone the transfer orbit to Mars.
“An average Hohmann transfer orbit to Mars requires 259 days and a delta-v of 3,9 km/s.”
This is in addition to the minimum to get to C3 escape just getting to escape put you in orbit around the sun at the same distance as earth. You need additional energy to climb out of the Sun’s gravity well in this case 3.49 more kms and another thousand plus tonnes of fuel.
NASA is useless. Billionaires are actually pioneers. Elon Musk. Jeff Bezos.
Yep. And fuel has mass that must be accelerated, too. It’s just dead weight until it is burned. It’s kind of a vicious cycle. You need more fuel to accelerate it but the more you add, the more you need.
Bezos has a good idea in launching rockets from an aircraft flying at high altitude because I am sure that the amount of fuel required to get a rocket TO 50,000 feet has to be in the tens of tons (at least). I’m no rocket scientist (although I have been to the Huntsville Space ad Rocket Center and got a t-shirt that says so) but I understand basic physics and F=mA.
They should push it outward and make it the temporary station between earth and the moon, like I want to say at lagrange 2...?
Agreed.
Inject it with the vaccine.
We’ve spent and EASY $100 Billion on the Space Station.
Just think of all the wonderful things we could have instead, if Congress could have spent that money on what this country REALLY needs.
hmmm....come to think of it, never mind.
CAPITAL IDEA!~
We lost 2 out of 5 biggest pos ever
Actually, I’ve seen some articles about sending the Space Station up high enough where it’s pretty much clear of space debris and also high enough to not fall back to Earth...roughly 1000 miles about the Earth’s surface. Could stay there pretty much for hundreds of years, and generations in the future could easily visit it. Far less fuel that trying to send it further from Earth.
Switch the power source to Tesla batteries. Then it won’t be long before it catches fire and burns, leaving nothing but ash for re-entry.
Those of us old enough all did. The movie 2001 A Space Odyessy, shot in 1968,
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Meanwhile, NASA killed Project Orion in 1964 - whose motto was “Mars by 1965, Saturn by 1970”
NASA selects Axiom Space to build commercial space station segment
by Tobias Corbett - January 27, 2020
Stuff it like a time capsule and nudge it to float out to space.
Yeah, but the fictional HAL 9000 had nowhere near the capabilities of Hunter Biden's laptop.
Just think of all the wonderful things we could have instead, if Congress could have spent that money on what this country REALLY needs.NEVER CONFISCATED OUR WEALTH in the first place.
Target practice for the new phasers.
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