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- From: drickel@bounce.mentorg.com (Dave Rickel)
- Subject: Re: Re : To the moon.....
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- Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 06:48:40 GMT
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- In article <PAULI.RAMO.93Jan24190410@vipunen.hut.fi>, Pauli.Ramo@hut.fi (no, I don't repeat it!) writes:
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- |> If someone has the velocity change requirements for the rest of our trip
- |> to moon, we can continue this little number game.
-
- OK, here's a table from Sutton
-
- Mission Ideal velocity Approx actual velocity
- (km/sec) (km/sec)
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- Satellite orbit 7.9-10 9.1-12.5
- Escape from earth 11.2 12.9
- Escape from moon 2.3 2.7
- Earth to moon (soft landing 13.1 16.1
- on moon, no return)
- Earth to Mars (soft landing) 17.5 20
- Earth to Venus (soft landing) 22 26
- Earth to moon (soft landing
- on moon, return to earth) 15.9 18.6
- Earth to Mars (soft landing 22.9 27
- and return)
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-
- Oh well. Not quite what we need, but interesting, regardless. Anyway, call
- it 3.2 km/sec for TLI, .7 km/sec for LOI, another .7 for TEI, and aerobrake
- somehow for reentry.
-
- Someone must have posted the empty and full masses of the ET--i seem to have
- missed them. Anyway, if you assume a mass ratio of between 4 and 5 for
- shuttle + ET, you get a delta v of between 6 and 7 km/sec. Plenty for TLI.
- I don't think OMS is sufficient for LOI, however, so you'd need to restart
- the main engines. And again for TEI. You aren't going to have enough left
- over at reentry to bring you down to normal LEO reentry speeds, but maybe
- you can do a couple of skips to burn off some speed.
-
-
- david rickel
- drickel@sjc.mentorg.com
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