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Re:Basics of Space Flight: Orbital Mechanics by nfg on Wednesday October 07, 2015 @05:34PM (#10349272)
Totally agree with one caveat for potential purchasers: my copy of BMW uses US/imperial units which is a little annoying if you're from a metric background. I'm not sure if there's a metric edition.
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Re:Basics of Space Flight: Orbital Mechanics by exDM69 on Thursday October 08, 2015 @03:53AM (#10351396)
Most of the exercises use canonical units, ie. units scaled so that the magnitude of time and distance is near 1.

Aerospace has always used nautical miles (not statute miles) and thousands of feet to measure distance on earth.

I am from an European, metric country, and I didn't have any issues with BMW.

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