Your rocket vs the rocket
- Thread starter glhs837
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Did I miss the fire in the first video?
glhs837
Power with Control
Well, yes and no. It did fire for 19 seconds.............. you just can't see it........ That's the thing. People equate NG and Starship because they are both the newest rockets. But New Glen is really closer to Falcon Heavy in capabilities. Its like Falcon is the F-150, Falcon Heavy is the F-250, and New Glen the F350. But the Starship is an F750, not an F450.
LightRoasted
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Did all this activity with those rockets secured to the ground, move the Earth at all? I'm worried they might have moved us closer to the Sun.
Did all this activity with those rockets secured to the ground, move the Earth at all? I'm worried they might have moved us closer to the Sun.
black dog
Free America
Was Chuck Norris there?
glhs837
Power with Control
Nope,, might widen our orbit and reduce climate change
DPAT
Active Member
Nah, it pushes the air around a lot. Unless mass is ejected from earth and leaves, the earth's velocity is unchanged.
We build satellites and spacecraft to be light because the actual mass that leaves the Earth is tiny considered to the mass of everything that is used to get it to escape Earth. We'll never add any noticeable change to the Earth's orbit unless we make giant electromagnet launching systems.
glhs837
Power with Control
The questions wasnt about rockets that launch, but rather these static fires where the rocket remains clamped to the stand. Of course the answer is the same, no.
LightRoasted
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It was a joke people. Of course if a rocket was going to move the earth, everyone knows that the rocket would have to be mounted either sideways or up-side-down. Geez.
It was a joke people. Of course if a rocket was going to move the earth, everyone knows that the rocket would have to be mounted either sideways or up-side-down. Geez.