Timeline for Ugh, I'm stuck in an orbital spaceport. But why?
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| Jun 21, 2023 at 12:25 | comment | added | Gillgamesh | cant do better than the true story: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mehran_Karimi_Nasseri | |
| Jun 21, 2023 at 10:24 | history | edited | HDE 226868♦ | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Jun 21, 2023 at 10:23 | comment | added | HDE 226868♦ | @Shadowzee My wording was a little confusing -- it's a Delta-v, so a net change in speed rather than an acceleration. Apologies; I'll reword that to clarify. | |
| Jun 21, 2023 at 6:24 | comment | added | Shadowzee | Random question, but how does an acceleration of 3.6 km/s not just kill everyone on board? Gravity is 9.8m/s and 10g's is about the limit for short exposures. You're suggesting we accelerate people at 360 g's for several months then turn around and decelerate them again at 360 g's | |
| Jun 19, 2023 at 19:26 | comment | added | stix | Didn't pay your docking fees, so your ship is impounded until you cough up the funds... | |
| Jun 16, 2017 at 19:10 | history | edited | JDługosz |
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| Apr 13, 2017 at 12:52 | history | edited | CommunityBot |
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| Dec 19, 2016 at 15:11 | vote | accept | HDE 226868♦ | ||
| Dec 19, 2016 at 15:02 | history | edited | kingledion |
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| Dec 19, 2016 at 5:47 | answer | added | Engineer | timeline score: -2 | |
| Dec 19, 2016 at 4:57 | answer | added | Robyn | timeline score: 0 | |
| Dec 19, 2016 at 0:19 | answer | added | Trish | timeline score: 1 | |
| Dec 18, 2016 at 23:56 | history | edited | Trish | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
made the really relevant parts bold - these two parts make this a not-story-bound but worldbuilding question.
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| Dec 18, 2016 at 8:48 | answer | added | Bindelstif | timeline score: 0 | |
| Dec 18, 2016 at 3:40 | comment | added | AAM111 | By Lower Earth Orbit, do you mean an airport ? | |
| Dec 17, 2016 at 19:13 | answer | added | Emory Bell | timeline score: 0 | |
| Dec 16, 2016 at 10:07 | answer | added | JDługosz | timeline score: 1 | |
| Dec 16, 2016 at 9:29 | answer | added | Jens | timeline score: 0 | |
| Dec 16, 2016 at 8:26 | answer | added | user8827 | timeline score: 4 | |
| Dec 15, 2016 at 21:36 | answer | added | Freiheit | timeline score: 6 | |
| Dec 15, 2016 at 19:42 | answer | added | Innovine | timeline score: 2 | |
| Dec 15, 2016 at 18:29 | answer | added | mlv | timeline score: 3 | |
| Dec 15, 2016 at 16:46 | answer | added | Jack Aidley | timeline score: 4 | |
| Dec 15, 2016 at 14:02 | answer | added | xDaizu | timeline score: 1 | |
| Dec 15, 2016 at 13:32 | comment | added | Reinstate Monica | @njzk2 Moving about in space is all about orbits, and to change orbit you have to change your speed. The faster you're moving, the higher your orbit. Different types of fuel provide different amounts of thrust per unit of mass they have. If you have two amounts of fuel "1kg of Foo", "2kg of Bar" there's no easy way of comparing them without knowing more information. So instead of using an amount of fuel, you use an amount of change in speed. This is known as delta-v. So it takes roughly 3.6 km/s delta-v to get from earth to mars.en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delta-v | |
| Dec 15, 2016 at 11:24 | answer | added | CptEric | timeline score: 6 | |
| Dec 15, 2016 at 5:14 | answer | added | Aequitas | timeline score: 0 | |
| Dec 15, 2016 at 3:54 | answer | added | Jarred Allen | timeline score: 1 | |
| Dec 15, 2016 at 0:23 | answer | added | John Feltz | timeline score: 2 | |
| Dec 15, 2016 at 0:03 | answer | added | Biff MaGriff | timeline score: 8 | |
| Dec 15, 2016 at 0:01 | answer | added | Sensii Miller | timeline score: 0 | |
| Dec 14, 2016 at 21:39 | comment | added | njzk2 |
3.60 km/s burn for acceleration what does that mean?
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| Dec 14, 2016 at 21:37 | answer | added | Marshall Tigerus | timeline score: 15 | |
| Dec 14, 2016 at 20:44 | comment | added | M i ech | Uniquely space related? Go with CMEs, as suggested by multiple answers. CME hitting a spacecraft is a severe radiation risk. CME hitting earth fries a lot of unshielded electronics (Geomagnetic Storm), but magnetosphere might protect LEO objects in equatorial orbit from most of the alpha/beta/proton radiation of the CME itself. If your stations are EMP hardened, they should be much safer even without additional radiation shielding, but since they don't fly, they can be a bit heavier to include radiation shielding. | |
| Dec 14, 2016 at 20:07 | answer | added | oliver | timeline score: 8 | |
| Dec 14, 2016 at 20:00 | answer | added | Ms Jy | timeline score: 2 | |
| Dec 14, 2016 at 19:29 | answer | added | o.m. | timeline score: 5 | |
| Dec 14, 2016 at 17:04 | answer | added | Thucydides | timeline score: 34 | |
| Dec 14, 2016 at 17:02 | answer | added | Steve-O | timeline score: 2 | |
| Dec 14, 2016 at 16:13 | history | edited | HDE 226868♦ | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Dec 14, 2016 at 16:09 | answer | added | Catalyst | timeline score: 0 | |
| Dec 14, 2016 at 16:02 | answer | added | kingledion | timeline score: 124 | |
| Dec 14, 2016 at 15:47 | answer | added | Separatrix | timeline score: 10 | |
| Dec 14, 2016 at 15:46 | answer | added | Green | timeline score: 67 | |
| Dec 14, 2016 at 15:45 | comment | added | HDE 226868♦ | @Kys In what I can only refer to as the Golden Age of Piracy, I'm guessing there weren't too many shipping delays because of piracy. In theory, it's a threat you can't predict. You can only hope for the best, and deal with it when it happens. | |
| Dec 14, 2016 at 15:43 | comment | added | Kys | You're asking this about the same universe as space pirates and you wonder why there might be delays | |
| Dec 14, 2016 at 15:42 | comment | added | HDE 226868♦ | @Frostfyre If you could show that there would be terrorist threats unique to space, I'd definitely take that, but that's in general also an issue on Earth airports, too. | |
| Dec 14, 2016 at 15:42 | comment | added | Frostfyre | So you don't want answers like "There's a terrorist in the building!"? | |
| S Dec 14, 2016 at 15:37 | answer | added | HDE 226868♦ | timeline score: 12 | |
| S Dec 14, 2016 at 15:37 | history | asked | HDE 226868♦ | CC BY-SA 3.0 |