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Would it have been any more difficult to build the space station without the space shuttle?

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Nov 5 '17 at 22:35 Community♦ 1
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How best to maneuver inside a large room within a space station using only arm and leg motion?

space-station physics
Dec 20 '18 at 18:04 Punintended 324
 
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What kind of mission objective would make a parabolic escape trajectory desirable?

orbital-mechanics orbital-maneuver escape-velocity
Oct 3 '19 at 3:31 uhoh 123k
 
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What factors determine how long a window of opportunity opens for an interplanetary hohmann transfer?

orbital-mechanics interplanetary escape-velocity launch-window
Sep 19 '17 at 19:19 Russell Borogove 145k
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In what circumstance would it be useful for a satellite’s angular velocity to differ from its reference frame’s angular velocity?

artificial-satellite attitude rotation
Dec 20 at 10:37 Peter Nazarenko 1,143
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Are robot arms ever used for attitude control in space?

attitude robotic-arm canadarm
Sep 21 '18 at 1:26 ChrisR 4,731
 
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What aerothermal effects present significant challenges in supersonic retropropulsion?

advanced-propulsion aerodynamics thermodynamics
Oct 9 '17 at 1:15 uhoh 123k
 
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How can I design a finite thrust maneuver to approximate an impulse thrust maneuver?

orbital-mechanics specific-impulse
Dec 23 at 22:58 peterh 2,954
 
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Is there a comprehensive list of NASA contractors with a list of projects that they are assigned to do?

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How are rockets gimballed to produce a gravity turn for the space shuttle?

space-shuttle thrust gimbaled-engines gravity-turn
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Differential Equations for Rocket Launch in Polar Coordinates

launch orbital-mechanics trajectory
Sep 8 '17 at 12:25 Paul 1,879
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Up to what mach/reynolds numbers will Ingenuity be tested?

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How do we determine the internal composition of gas giants?

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Jun 23 '18 at 0:55 Tom Spilker 17k
 
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From which direction should a spacecraft intercept a target planet's sphere of influence for an inner-to-outer planet trajectory?

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Oct 1 '17 at 1:56 Russell Borogove 145k
 
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Understanding the multi-stage mass tables in Wiesel's Spaceflight Dynamics

stages mass-fraction
Sep 27 '17 at 14:24 Paul 1,879
 
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What are the most commonly consumed solid foods on the space station and why?

astronaut-lifestyle food
Jun 29 at 5:09 Paul 1,879
 
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How can I find the time of flight between spheres of influence?

orbital-mechanics soi time-of-flight
Feb 4 '18 at 12:07 notovny 1,812
 
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Time of flight between two anomalies in a known orbital trajectory

orbital-mechanics trajectory time-of-flight
Sep 21 '17 at 22:40 Jerard Puckett 7,241
 
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How can I control the departure and arrival aiming radii in an ideal interplanetary trajectory?

orbital-mechanics interplanetary
Sep 19 '17 at 0:07 peterh 2,954
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How to model the martian atmospheric density variations with respect to altitude?

mars reentry
Sep 18 '17 at 15:26 Mark Adler 55k
 
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How can I obtain the necessary thrusts / mass flow rates to achieve a given burnout velocity for an optimally staged rocket?

mass thrust stages
Sep 30 '17 at 3:36 Loren Pechtel 9,377
 
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What is the characteristic time to reach a hyperbolic excess velocity within a sphere of influence?

orbital-mechanics interplanetary escape-velocity
Sep 20 '17 at 4:21 uhoh 123k
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