Timeline for What is the ISS drag?
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| Mar 15, 2021 at 10:07 | answer | added | asdfex | timeline score: 4 | |
| Mar 15, 2021 at 9:54 | comment | added | asdfex | This question and answer is more concise than the new one and therefore the better one. The new question contains a lot of unnecessary fluff making it hard to read. | |
| Mar 15, 2021 at 0:47 | comment | added | uhoh | @Vikki-formerlySean about that I've just posted this in meta: Are these two similar questions ripe for merging? disagree, we should guide future readers to the best answers, not simply the oldest ones. SE is all about the answers. | |
| Mar 15, 2021 at 0:32 | comment | added | Vikki | @uhoh: That's a duplicate of this one, not the other way around. | |
| Mar 14, 2021 at 23:26 | review | Close votes | |||
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| Mar 14, 2021 at 23:05 | comment | added | uhoh | Does this answer your question? How hard does atmospheric drag push on the ISS? Is it more than one pound? | |
| Nov 10, 2015 at 10:14 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/StackSpaceExp/status/664023217787568128 | ||
| Nov 9, 2015 at 16:46 | comment | added | TildalWave | That's basically what ISS VASIMR, sadly canceled, was supposed to do. | |
| Nov 9, 2015 at 15:17 | vote | accept | SF. | ||
| Nov 9, 2015 at 15:05 | answer | added | PearsonArtPhoto♦ | timeline score: 21 | |
| Nov 9, 2015 at 14:56 | comment | added | SF. | @Antzi: ISS has perfectly functional RCS for these, and if the thruster had a little surplus thrust it could be switched off for a time... nevertheless, treat this more as a thought experiment to explain what kind of force I mean instead of actual technical application. (ISS inside is microgravity; I want to know the strength of the drag component of that microgravity) | |
| Nov 9, 2015 at 14:52 | comment | added | Antzi | You'll need some mean of throttling to account for variation of drag induced by the environmental factors, and still requirer some stronger thrusters for evasive maneuvers. A variation of altitude can also be helpful for weaker launchers to reach the ISS (Or heavier cargos). | |
| Nov 9, 2015 at 14:48 | comment | added | SF. | @Antzi: Yes, non-stop. Say, it appears the EmDrive works as well as advertized. Or more realistically that's a very efficient ion engine. | |
| Nov 9, 2015 at 14:46 | comment | added | Antzi | Do you want them to be constantly firing ? | |
| Nov 9, 2015 at 14:31 | history | edited | PearsonArtPhoto♦ |
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| Nov 9, 2015 at 13:17 | history | asked | SF. | CC BY-SA 3.0 |