It's slowing down!
It was around 1.5 ml/s a couple of days ago.
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Varmint, Tue 28 Dec 2021, 8:35,
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So will it be spot on 0 ml/s when it reaches its destination?
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Varmint, Tue 28 Dec 2021, 11:32,
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that will be extremely cool
I wonder how long it takes to decelerate down to 0 velocity units from the given tempo and the distance.
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Woodkovsky ☹️➝🚻➝🚽➝😣➝💩➝🧻➝😁, Tue 28 Dec 2021, 11:40,
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letting gravity to do it would take months if not years
"The final maneuver, MCC-2, performed 29 days after launch, is designed to insert Webb into the optimum orbit around L2."
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simbosan nuck nuck nuck, Tue 28 Dec 2021, 11:45,
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Nope
I mean, it will depend on your frame of reference. However, even when it gets to the Lagrange point it will still orbit around that.
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wheresthefish Partly filled with wrong, Tue 28 Dec 2021, 12:21,
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The lagrange points are a fairly fixed distance from us though, so its relative velocity should be fairly close to 0.
Also, unless you love maths, why bother with the imperial units? Miles per second?? Who is that for?
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brb man-child cuck corporate supplicant fuck, Tue 28 Dec 2021, 14:59,
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Miles per second is probably for Americans.
Millilitres per second sounds like a setting for a drip. kms-1 is more like it.
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FeralCatMan Long ads need comments sections, Tue 28 Dec 2021, 17:58,
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One of the Mars missions fucked up because of this:
NASA was using SI units like proper engineers and scientists, except the sub-contract Lockheed Martin team, who were working in cubits or something.
The probe entered Mars atmosphere for aerobraking at about 1/3 the altitude that was planned - about 50 km up instead of the planned 220 km - and broke up.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mars_Climate_Orbiter#Cause_of_failure
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Invisible Wizard - 13th Level Scrote, Wed 29 Dec 2021, 12:48,
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