Re:New Spacesuit Unveiled for Starliner Astronauts
by creshal on Thursday January 26, 2017 @09:29AM
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Where have you gotten that from? The only numbers I can find for observed Δv changes are some 100m/s for USA-212, which is a third of the OMS' rated 300m/s with a full cargo bay.
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Re:New Spacesuit Unveiled for Starliner Astronauts
by dotancohen on Thursday January 26, 2017 @04:24PM
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For one thing, the X-37 Wikipedia page states that a design goal was 3.1 KM/s Delta-V. That's about as official a number as I'm finding online (blah blah Wikipedia source), but there are quite a few people who track these things in the sky. Each orbital inclination or altitude change requires a minimum delta V to execute, and we can observe the results of these maneuvers here on Earth. Online arguments about the X-37 delta-V are inconclusive, we'll leave it at that!