/sci/ - Science & Math

>the HTV is docked to the ISS
>now Dragon is coming
>I watched both launches with /sfg/

>>11721198
The comfiest.

>>11694322
>never reply to my posts with a frog ever again
No.
>also, that excludes MOOSE, and LESS was a one-way trip, not a round trip like you're proposing
There's enough mass budget to not need MOOSE, and LESS can be modified with extra droptanks for the way down. MOOSE doesn't make sense as a primary given that you're already going to need a reentry-capable human-rated capsule just to get the mission off the ground at all. MOOSE actually makes more sense for using Starships to build a space station. Park it in orbit, dock, do the bits of module connecting that can't be done remotely, leave the remaining fuel for station-keeping, and use MOOSE to bail out. That gets you 100m3 of station space per launch, so you can put the thing together in a hurry.

>>8415453
>If the earth's rotation around the sun was slowed down and even stopped, wouldn't it gravitate towards the sun and get swallowed up by the sun?

if the earth's rotation stopped, it would become tidally locked to the sun and it would be permanent day on one side and permanent night on the other

if the earth's orbit was stopped, then yes it would crash into the sun