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12 questions linked to/from What is the largest delta-v ever produced in space from mechanically stored energy?
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Highest DC voltage ever intentionally produced in space?
Comments on the page Maximum grid voltage of ion thruster got me wondering; what is the highest DC voltage ever intentionally produced by a spacecraft in space?
Photomultiplier tubes and micro-channel ...
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How hard do you have to throw something off the ISS to make it deorbit?
During Expedition 41 Reid Wiseman and Alexander Gerst replaced a failed pump on the outside of the ISS. I am guessing they took the broken pump back inside the ISS and returned it to earth in one of ...
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How did the GoFast 2014 Rocket de-spin?
In this awesome Youtube video of HD footage from the GoFast 2014 Rocket, a de-spin maneuver is performed. Is this a yo-yo de-spin?
You can see the de-spin at 0:57 and at 3:47, where it really looks ...
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How can a yo-yo de-spin maneuver reverse the rotation?
I just read about yo-yo de-spin as a measure to reduce the spin of objects. The basic idea is simple and makes sense, but then I read this:
As an example of yo-yo de-spin, on the Dawn Mission […] ...
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Has adjustable Yo-Yo de-spin been tested or demonstrated?
The video in the interesting question How did the GoFast 2014 Rocket de-spin? shows a de-spin that went well. An initial very fast spin (for stabilization during propulsion) is almost perfectly de-...
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Why is "Terminator Tape" electrically conductive?
A 230 foot long tape deployed from the satellite Prox-1 greatly reduced how long it took to deorbit. The tape was described as electrically conductive.
Was that property intended to help the ...
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What if we launched rockets from space using the slingshot method and centripetal force? Would that be possible?
Would we have to build a orbiting launch station that uses centripetal force to launch the rockets? Or a station that freely floats through space not in a planets orbit? Would something like this ...
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Is NASA's Performance Vehicle Calculator website open for public use?
This answer links to "NASA's Performance Vehicle Calculator" with the link
https://elvperf.ksc.nasa.gov/Pages/Query.aspx
I've also found the same link in
https://forum.nasaspaceflight.com/index....
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Saturn Ivb accelerated [closed]
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saturn_V
Derivation of a variant of the Tsiolkovsky rocket equation which includes gravity
Take the rocket equation :
v = ln(m0/mf) ve - g tburn
Where tburn is time ...
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Highest velocity impact between a spacecraft and a solar system body? What about for a dedicated impactor (spacecraft component)?
In this answer I mention the proposed impact of DART:
Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) Mission
Double Asteroid Redirection Test
The Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) Element of the ...
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Fastest Manmade Object
I remember reading somewhere that during the cold war, a nuclear weapon was placed underground with a manhole cover on-top and then detonated. I'm pretty sure the manhole cover then went orbital ...
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What is the largest energy stored in a spring or other stress-based energy storage device that's ever been put in space?
The question What is the largest delta-v ever produced in space from mechanically stored energy? asks of course about the delta-v produced, but here I'm asking about the largest amount of stored ...
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