15 points | by gmays 7 hours ago ago
5 comments
I never knew it took this long. Are they accelerating throughout this time? Would love to see some visualization of this journey.
More just being very careful, no brakes on a rocket if coming in too fast and just a little bump is a big problem.
Interestingly, I found that the record for the Soyuz capsule is around 3 hours, as they prefer much more direct paths.
https://www.space.com/soyuz-makes-fastest-space-station-crew...
Doing a bit of napkin math, it looks like this Soyuz mission made only 2 full orbits; this mission making ~5.
Surprised article skipped distance. ISS is 400km away, so 50km/h to reach? Obviously being a bit facetious, but gives some idea of what they're working with
Obligatory XKCD, explaining what the basic problem of getting into orbit is: https://what-if.xkcd.com/58/
I never knew it took this long. Are they accelerating throughout this time? Would love to see some visualization of this journey.
More just being very careful, no brakes on a rocket if coming in too fast and just a little bump is a big problem.
Interestingly, I found that the record for the Soyuz capsule is around 3 hours, as they prefer much more direct paths.
https://www.space.com/soyuz-makes-fastest-space-station-crew...
Doing a bit of napkin math, it looks like this Soyuz mission made only 2 full orbits; this mission making ~5.
Surprised article skipped distance. ISS is 400km away, so 50km/h to reach? Obviously being a bit facetious, but gives some idea of what they're working with
Obligatory XKCD, explaining what the basic problem of getting into orbit is: https://what-if.xkcd.com/58/