Re:The SpaceX Starship is a big deal
by gpm on Wednesday October 30, 2019 @03:08PM
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They'll need station keeping anyways [0], but is 16 million tons actually enough to create substantial gravitational force?
Looks like the circle would be approximately 1100 kilometers in radius (per wikipedia), according to this random calculator [1] 20 million tons at 1100 km creates a force of 0.000000000001103 N/kg.
I don't think gravity is likely to be the biggest problem.
[0] Solar wind will push them, the lagrange point they would sit as is actually a "point" and anywhere nearby you slowly drift out of it
Looks like the circle would be approximately 1100 kilometers in radius (per wikipedia), according to this random calculator [1] 20 million tons at 1100 km creates a force of 0.000000000001103 N/kg.
I don't think gravity is likely to be the biggest problem.
[0] Solar wind will push them, the lagrange point they would sit as is actually a "point" and anywhere nearby you slowly drift out of it
[1] https://www.omnicalculator.com/physics/gravitational-force